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THE • 

CRISIS! 

AN APPEAL 
TO OUR COUNTRYMEN, 

ON THE SUBJECT OP 

FOREIGN INFLUENCE 

IW TUEIUnriTED STATES! 



lasned under the sanction of the General Executive Commltee of the 
American ^Kepubllcan party of the citf and county of New York* 



" Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence ([conjure yoH to believe me, 
fellow-citi7.?ns,) the jealous/ of a free pople ou.^ht to be constantly awake; 
since history anl experience prove, that foreign influence is one of il^e most 
banf;ful foes of a republican government."— ii'ashinsrlon's Famcell Address. 

" I hope that we may find some means in future, of shielding ourselves from 
foreign influence, political, commercial, or in whatever form it may be attempted. 
I can scarcely withhold myself from jiining in the wi.sh of Silas Deane— that. 
thoie were an ocean of fire between this and the old world."- ./f^erson. 

" Securitv au'ainst foreign dinger is one of the primitive c)l)iects of civil society. 
It is an avoui; I and an essential object of tlie t\riierican Union."— Madison. 

" Foregii iii:Uuinc,j is truly a Grecian horse to the Republic. We cannot be 
too careful t > .•\clude its entrance "—Madison. 

"Tliey w II make our elections a curse instead of a bles.sing."— Fan Huren. 

" Tlie I-'eooeoftlic United Slates: May they ever remeinlier that, to preserve 
their lib rtius, they mast do tlieir voting and their own fighting."— ^orrwon. 

" If ever the Libtrtits of this Republic are destroyed, it wiU ^e by Roman 
Priests."— l.af ay die. 



NEW YORK: 
PUBLISHED AT No. 20 1 BROADWAY, 

AND FOR SALE AT THK PRINCIPAL BOOKSTORES. 
1844. 



Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1844, 

By JosEi'H F. Atwill, 

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District 
of New York. 



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PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



Friends and Codntrtmen : 

Periods have occurred in the history of every nation which have 
called for extraordinary efforts and remarkable examples of virtue 
and patriotism for the preservation of the rights and privileges they 
have acquired by superior valor, intelligence or fortune. And there 
always have been intestine or foreign enenaics who, either from 
their own depraved character or from peculiar circumstances under 
which they have been placed, have sought — and often success- 
fully — to wrest from others by artifice, or force, the rights and privi- 
leges thus acquired. It is not therefore remarkable that the people 
of the United States should find the same periods in their own his- 
tory and the same disposition in men or nations to deprive them of 
their superior national or acquired advantages; it is indeed reason- 
able to expect that they, more than any other people, are liable, from 
the peculiarity of their privileges and government, to find enemies 
within and without their country, and that, in defence of those priv- 
ileges and that government, they will be called upon for not less ex- 
traordinary efforts and examples of virtue and patriotism. 

Notwithstanding the many and peculiar arts of modern civiliza- 
tion, and the greater inducemenis for men to be wiser and better, 
Vfe still find the same disposition in individuals and nations of men 
to deprive others of their private or national advantages which all 
history so clearly exhibits for our instruction. Hence the frequent 
and great errors committed, and the injustice suffered as a conse- 
quence, by relying too confidently on supposed "improvements" 
in the motives and circumstances of men. This truth — always to 
be said ''more in sorrow than in anger" — calls the more loudly 
for caution and vigilance, and for still greater efforts on the part 
of those having important rights and interests to guard and 
defend, because it is the re^iult of experience. Tlie more valuable 
these rights and interests are, consequently, the more pains should 
be taken and the more powerful should be the means adopted for 
their preservation ; and, when these are assailed or endangered, the 
greater elllorts are necessary and thrmore numerous and remarkable 
should be the examples of patriotism and virtue. 

By the common consent and declarations of mankind, it is now 



4 PRELIMINART RKMARK8. 

generally knowu and bt-lieved that the existing government of llic 
United States, the prominent cliaracteris-tics of their native citizens 
and the extent and natural advantages of their domains, are superior 
to those of any otlier nation upon the earth. Heuce millions, for 
various reasons, flock from other countries to our own, and hence 
also the greater reasons for its native citizens to guard with greater 
care and to defend with more zeal their peculiar government, rights 

and privileges. It appears equally plain, likewise, that these ad van- ' 

tagcs present greater inducements for the people of other nations to ( 

seize upon them by artifice or force, and to appropriate, some at least, i 
of the most imporlaut ol' them to their exclusive use, and to destroy 

others obuoxiou< to their prejudices. ^ 

The nature of the government and of the civil and religious insti- a 
tutions of our country are well known to be diametrically opposed 1 
to those of most others, and especially the most powerful, yet the 
most unhappy of the eastern world. It is therefore plain that those 
interested, either from prejudice or selfishness, in the continuance of j 
the governments and institutions of those nations, would very na- 
turally, and hence very probably, seek to destroy, in some way, the | 
government and institutions of our own. Of this disposition and of i 
the attempts of such to do so, the people of the United States have ■ 
now numerous exan)ples ; but we shall endeavor to show, in the ] 
following remarks, that this diiposition is stronger, more active and | 
more alarming, and the attempts more frequent, strong and con- 
certed, than our native citizens are aware. | 

That a period has arrived in our brief history when the virtues ' 
alluded to as required in the history of other nations are necessary 

ill our own, and when this ojjposiiion to our institutions and the •^ 

means adopted to modify or destioy them are alarmingly active and '; 

powerful, we, and a large portion of our countrymen are well con- i 

viiiced. And, thut this fact now demands from us, and them, — ' 

from every native citizen — extraordinary eflortsand examples of in- ' 

dependence and honesty, to stay the progress of this opposition and ' 

to provide against its efl'ects and the means wbifili it now employs — ' 

and which wo lliiiik it will certainly continue to employ — we are ' 

also equally will convinced. We are not however disposed to I 

think ; nor do we at present believe, that the majority of the aliens i 

and adopted citizL-ns now in our country, and who are the chief ^ 

a>;cnts, under the control of otlAp, in manifesting this opposition, or ' 

furcisn influence, are fully aware of the evils they have brought, ! 

and by their acts will continue to bring, upon our institutions. And I 



PRELIMINARY RSMARKS. 6 

the reason why we believe them thus insensible to these erils, is 
Ijecanse of their ignorance and prejudices. But, in admitting this, 
it should be distinctly borne in mind that the circumstance does not 
impair our obligations, nor should it for a moment relax our efTorts 
to correct and prevent the effects of this ignorance and these preju- 
dices. On the contrary, it calls still more loudly for our exertionsi 
for independence, patriotism nnd virtue. 

We know very well — every intilligent man knows — that, with 
such trails of character, men become llie most willing and elDcicnt 
instruments of mischief in the hands of others, and especially in a 
country like our own, where virtue and intelligence are the only 
safeguards of our institutions. They arc insensible to peaceful and 
reasonable influences and measures; and their wantou and blind 
acts therefore necessarily require stringent and forcible means to 
counteract thera and to arrest their fatal effects. 

There is, again, a large portion of these aliens and adopted citi- 
zens who, seeking alone their selfish interests and caring little or 
nothing for the purity and permanency of our institutions, eagerly 
seize the advantages Avhich our country presents and avail them- 
selves of every weak point in our national character, — the traits 
which otherwise would be among the noblest of virtues — and ren- 
der them subservient to their selfish and reckless purposes. And 
again there is a small portion — very small in comparison with the 
first — who are intelligent, virtuous, and, in many cases, truly patri- 
otic ; who have few of those prejudices so dangerous to cur liber- 
ties, and who commit none of those rash, blind and anti-American 
acts, so common with the masses that flood our country. 

Under any circumstances in which we may view foreign influ- 
ence; whether as the manifestation of design by enlightened, but 
artful foreigners or native citizens, as the blind acts and prejudices, 
or as the natural and customary practices of vicious and abandoned 
foreign paupers and crimin?ls — our countrymen are required by the 
love they bear their institutions and by the wish ihcy feel lo preserve 
and perpetuate them, to watch vigilantly the Proia?an shapes of this 
influence, and to stand boldly forth opposed to its fatal encroach- 
ments. This has been required from the first organization of our 
government, but within a few years it has assumed so daring a 
boldness, and has manifested so clearly and so injuriously its char- 
acter and effects, that our patriotic countrymen are now arousing 
throughout the land against these encroachments, and saying in the 
most determined language, "thus far shall thou go and no farther." 



b . PRKLIMINARY REMARKS. 

When our fathers, hy their valor, their treasurea and their bluod, had 
achieved the independence of our country and there \v;i8 supposed to 
be a ph'uty of room for their pnstiTiiy and the wjrld, our counlrv mi-n 
lliounrht of hllle but prospective piacc and h ippincss. Few oidy of 
tlic morL- sajr;)cioiis saw in the dislaiict the dangers which would icsult 
from foreign iniraii^ration ; and they did not hcsiiate to raise their warn- 
injz voices in view of them. The wiise and the f;ir-soeing VVashin<it(-n, 
JetTerson and Madison were of this number. But our countrymen 
were insensible to thiir admonitions, and they have coniinucd so, 
strange as it may seem, and slrange as it will herealler seem, nlmnst to 
the present day. But the evils, so clearly foreseen and npprehondtd, 
have come U|)on us; and the people are beginning to awake as fiom a 
dream, to the realities. 

The character ol" the population anticipated from foreign countries J 
chmged with the rapidity of immigration, and our Alms Houses and * 
prisons began to be tilled. In our rage for imprnvemenis, a temporary i 
disposal of these immigrants was made ; and, this as rai)idly increased 
their numbers. Vt-ry soon these new comers became anxious to be . 
citizens and to parlicipale in the control of our government. By their 
clamor, and the blindness and selSsh interests of politicians, they sue- * 
ceedeJ at an early day in pl)taining more favorable terms of naluraliza- ' 
tion ; and, soon after, even the probation required bv the easy terms ob- 
tained, became irksome in their eagerness to wield our instiiuiions. i 
Violations of the Naturalization laws, political ambiiion, reekK.«sno.'<s, j 
and abuse of our countrymen, began soon to mdicaietheconHiqnencosof 
our ill-advised philanthropy and heedlessness. ! 

The close of the wars of Europe threw bark upon society, a vast ! 
mass of idle, maimed and vicious men; an I the prisons and pauper 
houses there soon became crowded. Seeing this, am; the mems of | 
relief, the dooM were thrown opi'n by the aulhoritic.", and every means I 
were ailo]jted to push ( fl' this refuse and vicious population upon our i 
shores ; ami, up to this time, the tide of immigration U&a rolled in upon | 
U3, and already has it Hooded our country. The influx into Canada 
WU3 only another avenue to the supposed pauper house and Botany Bay J 
of all Europe — the United States. Year after year ihe rapidly increas- ' 
ing numbers of the ignorant, the poor and the criminal, have gone on j | 
and all the consequences foreseen are now rapidly disclosing them- 
selves. The immigrants of one particular nali«m begin to he jealous < 
of others ; and, like the combined conquerors of other nations or people^ ' 
ti»ey are regardless of jueiice ; and ihcy quarrel among lhenl^elve8 (6 \ 
the spoils of their presumed easy victory over us. A paper at Fraukfort, 



PRELIMINARY REMARKS. 



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fGermany,) says: "America, where so many llmusands of ourcoun^ 
try men reside (!) is destined at not a far distant period, to become more 
closely united icilh Germany. Tiiis would probably have already laken- 
place, had the German population in tliat country been more concen- 
trated (\) and every individual carried with him more of the Tiational 
spirii!" The progress o(^ " concentration,'" one would think, is now 
quite rapid enough lo effect the object contemplated in a very few years, 
if we continue to rest quietly. 

Every distinguished country, history informs us, has been cautious Iq 
admitting foreigners to participate in their rights and privileges. It is 
well known that the Athenians seldom if ever confided in those, even 
who spoke their own language. When llie people were first gathered 
to form Attica into a nation, foreigners, as in Athens, were allowed to 
practice their professions, and they were protected in their persons and 
property by wise and salutary laws, but none but native citizens were 
allowed to participate in the government. It is true, also, that no one 
but a Greek was allowed to enter the Olympic Games. All the gold of 
Eastern kings could not purchase this one right of the native citizens. 
A special law only could allow Pericles to marry his own countrywo- 
man of another city. Even in its most degraded condition, no number, 
dared insult an Athenian by proposing to share his rights and country. 
k was treason to insult a Roman citizen ; and none were allowed his 
rights but those who " had done the state some service." Thus the. 
rights of citizenship were highly appreciated and honored. Even mo- 
dern nations preserve far more viriue, in this respect, than ourselves. 
And are toe so tame as to submit thus slavishly.' An American must, 
have per7nission to enter Ireland or England ; and yet England boasts 
of being the freest nation on the earth. He must be known to the 
government ; and even then, he cannot be a citizen, nor in his oum 
nanu, make a nail or mend a pair of shoes. 

The false sympathies and mawkish sensibility of our countrymen in 
regard to foreigners, it is plainly seen, will prove our ruin. Should 
one rob himself, his family and friends of all that he and they love, and 
which is the source of all their happiness, to bestow it upon those who 
aeilher need nor appreciate it, and who, as we shall show, aim to de- 
prive them of it? Is it not our highest duty to defend ourselves and 
others from being robbed of these rights and privileges j and is not 
their defence and that of ourselves the first law of nature ? As things 
now are, we give away, or place in the hands of others, the means 
of robbing us of all we possess. Foreign influence seeks to divest us 
of these, and it is directly opposed to our character and institutioiur 



H. rRELIMINARV REMAKliE. 

■» 

No one but an American born can feel, think and act like an American^ 
Hence the heterogeneous massce in our country are not, tlicy cannot be 
American ; and wc cannot retain under these circumstances our na- 
tional individuality, or the blessings which it confers. There is no 
unity in our composition, and there cannot therefore be unity in our 
acts and purposes. In unity alone there is strength. How then can 
we hope for or expect individuality and strength while the elements of 
disunion are so powerful anJ continue so rapidly to increase? 

In view (tf tilt So' and the following facts and con>iJcralions,a large por- 
tion of our honest, p:ilriotic and intelligent countrymen have become 
associated to check the evils of foreign influence amon<j us, and to re- 
form public abuses arising tiierefrom. F(ir those oijecls, they have 
taken the title of " Amtrican liepublicans" and their purposes may be 
briefly slated as follows: 

Isl, To extend the time of Naturalization. 

2d, To guard from corruption and abuse the proceedings necessary 
to obtain certificates of Naturalization. 

3d, So to instruct and form public opinion, as to give native citizens 
an equal chance at least with foreigners to obtain office and lucrative 
employment. 

4tli, To prevent llie exclusion of the Bible from the use of schools. 

6th, To prevent riots, the violation of our laws, the desecration of 
the American flag and the shooting and murder of peaceable citizens 
when in the exercise of their undoubted rights. 

6th, To resist any further incroachments of a foreign, civil and spiri- 
tual power, upon the institutions of our country. 

7lh, To prevent all Union of Church and State. 

Thus ice mainlain and discuss principles. Wc advocalt iht purity 
and preservation of our institutions, the love of country, a compliance tcith 
the laws, the promotion of peace, prosperity, union and good iciU to ar 
men. ITe are the friends of education, morals und pure religion. We 
support the nntttral rights and arrjnii ed privilcgts of our citizens, and toe 
aim to protect the innocent, reform the vicious, educate the ignorant and 
relieve the vorttched. All these tend to one object — the happiness of the 
American people. 

In reviewing the character of this foreign influence and the acts 
of aliens and adopted ciii/ens, its chief and active agents among 
U8, wc distinctly allirm that we have no prejudices against thera, as 
such, and as they and a few corrupt politicians — we cannot call 



PARTY eriRIT AMD ife ErVBCTi*. 9 

them Americant — basely assert. We regard only their acts, their 
ignorance and their anti-American prejudices. Again&t these we 
would sedulously guard our countrymen, and urge them by every 
consideration worthy of Americans to check their effects by im- 
mediate and salutary measures. That the reasons for doing this 
are alarming and imperative we shall attempt clearly to show, and 
we believe the majority of our intelligent, virtuous and patriotic na- 
tive citizens are already awakened to the subject. And though wc 
are among those of our countrymen who would carefully promote 
the happiness and protect the luturc interests of ado;^ ted citizens, 
yet we cannot, we will not suffer political or ecclesiastical conside- 
rations, or our sympathy for foreigners to warp our judgment, sacri- 
fice our dearest rights or destroy our institutions. We will stand 
forth singly and alone, if needs be, in defence of our freedom, our 
government and our laws; and, in the language of the peojile of 
Lexington, Mass., to their representatives in 1772, "whether suc- 
cessful or not, succeeding generations shall know that we under- 
stood our rights and liberties, that we were neither afraid nor 
ashamed to assert and maintain them, and that we ourselves may 
hare at least this consolation in our chains, that it was not through 
oar neglect that this people were enslaved." 



PARTY SPIRIT AND ITS EFFECTS. 

Among the causes which have brought into action and stimulated 
foreign influence, and which will hereafter continue its evils is 
party spirit. There have been, and now are, those of both political 
parties of the day, who, to secure the success of the party to which 
they are attached, (latter and fawn upon adopted citizens for the 
purpose of procuring their votes. In doing this, they do not hesitate 
to promise reward in the form of offices of autlioriiy over our own 
countrymen or in ruinous concession to their foreign prejudices and 
interests, should the party or its interested leaders prove successful. 
A large portion of the members of these parties are cognizant of 
these base acts, though they may refuse to be tools in their execu- 
tion ; while others are not only unacquainted with them, but are 
too proud and patriotic thus to truckle to those foreigners w i:> 



10 PARTY aPIRIT AND ITS EFKKCT. 

too ignorant to npprcciate the value of the privileges bcsloTved upon 
them, or to understand the rt'lative merits of the persons or the 
questions submitted for iheir suffrage. 

Thus, both our own countrymen are deceived and the best inte- 
rests of the country are made tlie sport of politicians and ihe victims 
of foreign ignorance and prejudice. Thus, loo, foreigners are made" 
sensible of their influence in and over our political parties, and hence 
the arrogance of tht'ir demands as the wages of their prostitufled 
privileges. These things are so common in all our Atlantic states 
and chief cities, and so efTtciive withal, as to sway the policy of the 
nation and the destinies of our institutions. Is it not time, then; 
is it not imperative and above all party considerations, that Ameri- 
cans should arouse and correct the abuses of party spirit and the 
fatal tendency of foreign influence? Though this influence and the 
acts of politicians may not be observed in many parts of our country, 
yet we shall hereafter show that they are paramount and are fast 
prostrating the landmarks established by our fathers, withering the 
arms and spirit of freemen and drying up the free course of pa- 
triotism. No matter, fellow-citizens, where foreign influence rears 
its hydra form among us, it is equally felt, though not always seen, 
by all our countrymen; and its poison is most active where party 
spirit most prevails. Every American feels it sympathetically, as 
a member of our American body politic. 

We believe honest and intelligent Americans are now convinced 
that the recklessness and fury of j)arty spirit, as hitherto evinced 
during our elections, in secret schemes and opeiations. in our public 
meetings, in our halls of legislation and by parly presses, require a 
speedy and permanent correction. They see little reason and great 
mischief in the violent and artful plans of politicians; the base 
truckling to foreign influence ; the excitements of political canvasses, 
the abuse and misrepresentations of party declaimcrs, the crimina- 
tions and recriminations, the slanders, sophistry and equivocations 
of parli/.an editors; while truth, honesty and the best interests of 
the country are overlooked or trampled under foot in the accom- 
plishment of party purposes. They are, in truth, sick of all this, 
•when without adequate motives and interests, as u.'ual with politi- 
cal parties. They find, indeed, that slight differences of opinioa 
fcnd the comparative merits of measures have been magnified into 
things of awful import — few of which are national or enduring ia 
their effects and operations. They are ofteu imaginary, and are 
made for the occasion by interested partizans; and the whole coun- 



PARTY SPIRIT AND IT8 BFFECTS, 11 

try is thrown inlo an angry tumult to secure the election of oppo- 
sing and too often interested politicians, though avowedly to "save 
the country from impending ruin!" 

Principles and objects are generally proposed by leading and fre- 
quently by selfish politicians; and the people are thus goaded into 
a belief of their merit and importance. But, on an analysis of these 
principles and measures, and the character and professions of polit- 
ical men, differences of opinion and policy dwindle into comparatire 
insignificance, and measures lose their reputed importance. These 
measures are artfully made to take an air of nationality and of last- 
ing and vital importance, as they very naturally may and perhaps 
riecessarily do in a changing country like our own; but this hap- 
pens far less frequently than is supposed or is made to appear. 

In the fury of party zeal, thus induced by mistaken ideas of the 
importance of certain measures, and prejudices against, or prepos- 
sessions for certain political candidates, really important, national 
and immediate interests are disregarded, and accumulating evils are 
insensibly fastened upon the American public. Under such circum- 
stances, it becomes the highest duty of our countrymen to pause and 
reflect. If, in truth, we really desire the purity and permanency of 
our institutions — as we sincerely believe the majority of our coun- 
trymen do — we cannot be too cautious or too thoughtful in our in- 
quiries after truth and in the exercise of the exalted privileges of 
freemen, or too prompt in the correction of public evils. Men and 
measures presented for our consideration and suffrages should be 
carefully examined, and the great interests of our country sifted 
from the mere dogmas of politicians. We should indeed think and 
act independently and for the more important interests of our coun- 
try; interests far above those of the parlies of the day, and which 
determine whether we shall be freemen or slaves ! 

"1 warn you, my countrymen," said our great, our beloved Wash- 
ington, "to moderate the fury of party spirit." This farewell ad- 
monition, fellow-citizens, the Genius of Liberty has inscribed oa 
the altar of American freedom; and she now points us to the warn- 
ing precept : but how little, alas, is it heeded ! The enemies of our 
political liberties are now permitted to sport with our sacred privi- 
leges, and the ignorant of all nations wield at pleasure the destiniea 
of our country. With our own countrymen, understanding, as they 
do, our language and our institutions, swayed by no foreign in- 
terests or demagogues, and knowing for what and for whom they 
▼ote, parties, moderated by virtue and intelligence, are not immedi- 



FABTT SPIRIT AND ITf EFFECTS 12 

at*ly destructive. It has been said, indeed, that " the ferment of a 
free is better than the ignoble repose of a despotic government," but 
there is a remarkable difTerence between the spirit here contem- 
plated and that of a reckless party and of a foreign spirit wJiicIt 
has of late agitated the public mind and the councils of the nation. 
** To serve, not suffer — strengllien, not invade," is the legitimate 
sphere and effects of party. But the madness of modern party 
spirit — stimulated and fed by foreign influeuec, and amid Avhicli 
demagogues and artful foreigners revel and constantly assume new 
prerogatives and acquire new advantages over us — has drawn most 
of our countrymen within its vortex, and involved all we hold dear 
in the whirling torrent. Hence great American principles, the 
Bafety of our institutions, freedom itself, are wantonly disregarded. 
This state of things, fellow-citizens, will be continued so long as 
its causes exist; and these, if not redressed, will assuredly deter- 
mine the fate of our Republic. 

The spirit of parly too frequently has its source in the darkest 
passions of the heart, and reveals itself in selfishness and ambition. 
It engenders the bitterest feelings ; palsies the social virtues, warps 
the judgment, atilles the civilities of life and freezes up the warm 
gushes of philanthropy. It is amidst all this, we say — and let it be 
remembered — that foreign influence engrafts itself upon us and 
grasps at new powers. The long continuance and recklessness of 
this spirit, the indiscriminate freedom of ignorant and corrupt for- 
eigners to promote its activity and participate in its evils, has 
blinded us to a sense of our danger and of our duly. 

The active state of the physical as well as the political and social 
elements of our country, the rushing course of events, the railroad 
speed of popular enterprise, and the almost irresistible impetus 
which the nature of our institutions has given to the passions of 
men; to thoughts and actions, to principles and interests; loudly 
call for reflection, for scrutiny, watchfulness and caution. We 
should calmly ask ourselves if. amid ihe fury and recklessness of 
parly spirit, the vaulting ambition of demagogues, 

" Tfiat in their aspirations to be great 
O'crlcap our destiny,'* 

the foreign elements of crime, ignorance and tyranny, and the rapid 
change of circumstances, as the necessary icsult of the high pres- 
sure power impelling us onward, we are not recklessly pushing be- 
yond and losing sight of the landmarks by which alone we should be 



PARTY SPIRIT AND ITS EFFECTS. li 

guided iu our course — if we are not unmindful of the dangers and 
heedlessly indifferent to the nature and force of the elements thus 
urging us forward — if, in fine, we are not wantonly applying an 
artificial slimulent which, like alcohol upon the brain, intoxicates 
the people, and the result of which must be insanity and death ! 

It is well known to our countrymen that the votes of foreigners 
gives predominance to the parly which employs or purchases them ; 
Jiencc the base'and cunning arts of politicians to obtain thera, at 
any sacrifice of justice, truth, or public interest. The examples of 
these arts are too common and too revolting to need citation. But 
the horrible instances in Philadelphia deserve the curses of every 
American, of the world and of all posterity. The Governor, a dem- 
ocrat, and the Sheriff, a whig, it is said by good men three would 
both have made political capital of the blood of their slaughtered 
countrymen .' See the one arming aliens with deadly ireapons and 
commissioning them to discipline their foreign countrymen, se- 
cretly, in their CImrch, to shoot down Americans in the streets t 
See the other yielding his authority to, or leading on armed troops, 
to change the issue between the Foreigners and Native Americans 
to one between native Americans only, in accordance with the 
wishes of the foreign Jesuits of that city, and in like manner to 
shoot down our countrymen ! 

Thus holding the balance of power between the two contending 
parties, each jealous of the other, foreigners readily obtain their de- 
mand for office, or other political, or pecuniary advantages. Priests 
hesitate not to make such bargains for the votes of their creatures 
as will best serve the interests of their church or those of their " Lord 
God " the Pope, and the elevation of their men to authority over 
our countrymen and our laws. The offer of 50CO of these to a late 
Executive of this State to secure Ms influence in the modification, 
or the prostration, of our established and revered public schools; in 
blackening our books of learning, and in thrusting the Holy Bible 
from them, is a case in point ; as well also as that of the papists of 
Detroit in receiving the highest bid of the two parlies for their 
votes. It is, therefore, the policy of their priests to admonish, or 
command, their voters, as we frequently hear they openly do, but 
much more frequenlly, no doubt, privately, to vote for certain poli- 
tical candidates, as did Bishop Hughes of this city. Threats are 
also artfully and publicly, as well as privately, put forth to intimi- 
date and to induce the parlies to reward them for their votes. Ex- 
amples of these things are likewise before us ; all of which, wiik 



J4 PARTY BFIRIT AND 1X8 EFFECTS, 

Others, will continue rapidly to increase, if a remedy is not speedily 
applied. 

Out of party spirit also grows the nefarious acts of parti/aas ini 
the naturalization of aliens. A suQiciciit number of voters are ma- 
nufactured just prior to the elections in our chief cities to n'eutra- 
lise a majority of our own countiymen. Thus a constant con- 
test is provoked between Americans and foreigners. Thus, too, 
newly fledged patriots are made for every occasion to subserve the 
interests of party. Not less than 2000 of these have been manufac- 
tured annually in this city, as we are told by a judge in one of the 
manufacturing courts, for more than thirty years ! The acts, secret 
and open, which are practised by politicians in the manufacture of 
these voters, are revolting to every American patriot. 

Secret committees of one at least of the parties are in session 
some weeks prior to the elections, for the purpose, as they publicly 
advertise, of aiding foreigners in procuring naturalization papers^ 
and in facilitating the process. Dead men's papers are unblushingly 
bestowed upon those who cannot find men bold enough to swear 
newcomers through the /ttrms of naturalization, and others are pro- 
vided by the committee with partizans who are bold enough for 
this purpose, whether the candidates are entitled by the laws ip 
papers or not. Droves are marched thence to the courts — so called 
— and speedily made into '^better Americans," as they style them- 
selves, than native Americans. Naturalized foreign friends have 
been known to swear through hundreds o( such "belter Americans," 
and yet some of these when ultimately arrested for their perjuries, 
have escaped justice by declaring that they did not understand our 
language, our laws, or the nature of an oath ! The committees pay 
the fees in this business; being themselves provided by tlie party, 
and receive the quid pro quo in the votes of these manufactured 
Americans. Large scores have been run up at these courts for the 
bnsiness of naturalization ; but all is paid out of public spoils, gouen. 
by means of these manufactured voters; and the American people 
ultimately "pay the shot." 

We feel assured, fellow-citizens, that, on reflection and an im- 
partial examination of these exciting causes, with the truths which 
follow, you will arrive at the conclusion that our country and all 
we should love and revere, are in jeopardy. We have for ourselves | 
thus carefully watched events, and niinuiely enquired into the na- 
ture and effects of the causes operating upon our countrymen ; and ] 
the conviction is irresistibly impressed upon cur minds that ihcy 



FOREIGN IMMIGRATION. 15 

have overlooked the active motive power in the moral and political 
changvs occurring in oui country, and that a deadly evil lies at the 
botium, which, while it violently stimulates, as rapidly destroys. 
We therefore earnestly call upon them to look at this evil in the 
form ol foreign influence, and at once to check its progress and coiJ- 
eeqaenees. 



FOREIGN IMMIGRATION. 

The exciting cause, the moving and ever active impulse to moral 
and pulitical evil in our country, is ybrf/g-nrwy^i^fince; an extraneous 
and unnatural fungus that has continued to drift in detached masses 
across the Atlantic from the rotten and tyrannical governments of 
Europe, the corrupt and wretched stews, pauper houses and prisons 
of overburdened and decrepid transatlantic monarchies. Thus 
urged forih and over upon our broad and virgin shores by the fer- 
menting elements of moral and political corruption, it has, like an 
unnatural and deadly virus infected our whole body politic. — 
Like all foreign matter, incapable of assimilation and promotive of 
preternatural and inflammatory action, when taken up and circulated 
through the physical system, as with canine virus, it has rapidly 
diffused itself through the body politic and moral ; and, as with 
that poison, it fearfully exhibits itself in spasms and death. Let the 
late scenes in Philadelphia picture to the mind an apt, a forcible, an 
awful illustration of this truth— the primary cause, the premonitory 
convulsion-*, and ihe inevitable result! 

Yes, fellow-citizens, here, too, is found the chief cause of parly 
spirit, with all its attendant evils. The public mind is constantly 
and preiernaturaliy inflamed and convulsed by this unnatural and 
poisonous influence. I'he passions of the basest of men here, 
find food to live and thrive upon; and upon it they grow reckless 
and mad. The m.iterials on wliich they fied are singularly 
adapted to their sustenance, and their anomalous developments. 
These materials, too, are the tools, the creatures of designing 
foreign priests and puliiica! demagogues. They are led forih and 
set in motion alike ai the ballot-box and at scenes of riot and blood- 
shed. They are the ignorant, and hence the willing and suppliant 
instruments of foreign powers, ever active and irgcnicus in plots 
and counterplots. 



16 VOREIGS IMMIORATION. 

Tht Cause of ihe rapidly increasing and now almost overwhelm- 
ing foreign influence among us, is apparent tu all. It is foreign 
immii^ ration. There is no reason why we should wonder that 
this influence exists The swarms of ignorant, vicious and preju 
diced foreigners constantly flooding our country is the obvious, na- 
tural and necessary cause ; and so long as the cause exists so long 
will continue the ellccts; ;ind increase, too, in vastly superior pro- 
portions. Let not our countrymen sit down like tame and cringing 
slaves, iind say this is a " ncccssar// evil." Jt must be met, and met 
too, at once, or wo shall soon have neither force nor opportunity to 
meet it. It is idle ; it is silly and cowardly to trilk about the evil 
if we lack spirit anl virtue to oppose and correct it. Men may cry 
•peace! peace!' but tiiere is no peace. The enemy are already 
at our door. Our fate is inevitable. There is no room for hope, 
1)0 lime for delay. The results are as certain as that the cause ex- 
ists. Talk not of compromising the evil; talk not of putting oflf 
the day of action to the future. The remedy must be applied nom, 
or the disease is beyond cure. To tamper with it is to aggravate 
it, and to delay the remedy, is death ! 

It is quite impossible to ascertain with certainty the number of 
immigrants that annually come to our country. The various ways 
by whicii they come and the indifference manifested by the autho- 
rities having this subject nominally under their charge, preclude 
the possibility of accuracy. It has been thought that one-half of 
all these emigrants have arrived at the port of New York ; but wo 
are now satisfied this is a mistake. Va.st numbers come from the 
Canadas, from the West Indies through the Gulph of Mexico, and 
from ports at which little or no account is kept. Hence the Secje- 
tary of the Treasury has reported only from 70,000 to 120,000 as 
the animal number of immigrants from abroad for some years past. 
Whereas, we think we are safe in concluding that the average an- 
nual number, commg within our country ihruugh the various ports 
and from various directions, has not been less than 1 50,000 aimu- 
ally for the last ten years, or one and a half millions within that 
period. All data tend to confirm this estimate ; but, from present 
pruspccts, there will be a rapidly progressive increase for time to 
come. This csiimato also corresponds, as we have seen for the 
last 15 ytius, with the data before us. 

It appears that of tlic adult population of Cincinnati, 1 in 100 is a 
Frenchman oi Italian, IG in a 100 are from Great Britain, 28 
from (Jermany, and about 5 in 100 are not enumerated, Thus 
half tht voters in that city are foreigners. A similar state of things 
is .sliown in other western cities, and several of the western States 
art! entirely under the control of foreigners. A suflicient number 
anivff ;innnally to make two slates. The valley of the Mississippi will 
not lunj^ he Ain'-rir an in the character of its population, if it now is. 

The arrivals into the port of New York for the last 14 years, 



FOREIGN IMMIORJVTION. 17 

with a part of the present, is as follows, according to the data of the 
Custom House and the Mayor's Office ; though it is known to us 
that a great discrepancy exists, and also that several thousands 
should be added annually for thos<! conung in vessels less than 40 
tons, those comiug through New Jersey, some ofthcEasttan States 
and froni Canada : 



1830 — 30,224 


1834 - 


- 48,111 


1831 — 31,739 


1835 - 


- 35,308 


1832 — 48,580 


183G - 


- 60,541 


1833 — 41,752 


1837 - 


- 52,800 



[N. B. — We intended to introdncp liere the number of irnmipranis who 
have arrived at this port from 1837 to 1811 ; bur, strange as it may seem, 
we cannot obtain the facts, either at the Cu.stom Hou^e or at ihe Mayor's 
Office. Something is evidently wrong in this matter, and justifies ihe opi- 
nion that interested or political considerations may have liad their influ- 
ence in it; for the laws require line and regular accounts of these things 
to be kepi at these oihces.] 

To the above account may be annually added for those coming 
to this city, otherwise than repotted, at least 8,000; for we find, 
during years past, a difference of this nimiber between those re^ 
ported at the Custom House and at the Mayor's ofrice. There 
Avere 12,896 alien passengers, to this port, during the month of Juno 
last, which is an increase of 7,654 upon the same month last year. 
During the quarter ending with June last, there were brought to 
this port 25,008 — a large increase upon the ame quarter last year. 
In the mean time, 8,827 had arrived at Quebec; 8,000 have arri- 
ved in one weelc, 3,000 within 12 days, and 1,000 before breakfast. 
It may be fairly estimated that of the 200,000 now and within two 
or three year s anmially ivimigrating to this country, 150,000 are 
Roman Catholics — that near that number are vnable to read or 
to rile, and that half the number, or 15,000, caniiot speak our lan- 
guage! 'Vhe late Secretary, Mr. Upshur, s:iys that, from 1835 to 
1839, 24,507 imigrants were from Bavaria, not one of whom, of 
course, could speak our language ; nor can one in one thousand of 
all the Germans that flock here. And he says also that, 5,047 
" got od without passports," or, in other words, were felons, mur- 
derers, or other criminals. The reduction of the tax from one dollar 
to 25 cents on alien passengers into this port, made a difference in the 
Hospital Fund of $26,331 in six months, last year; so that, as 
Governor Bouck says, '• no part of the appropriation contemplated 
from the fund can be paid." Prior to 1830, all •passengers were 
estimated ; .but since, only alien passengers. 

It has been suggested, and we think with no slight reasons, that 
the difference in the number of aliens reported, as before alluded 
to, has arisen from political considerations. Others enter the city 
unreported for personal reasons, particularly murderers, thieves, 
refugees, and criminals of every grade ; and these are supposed to 
be 7iol less than one-tenth part of the whole, or 20,000 annually ! 



18 rORF.IGX IMMIGRATION. 

But it should be remembered that all these criminals arc admitted 
as citizens:, and are alloiced to irield the elective franchise, while 
native Americans are disfranchised for the same crimes! From 
estimates made with great accuracy, not one-tenth of all the male 
imigrants are possessed of property, or an honorable profession ca- 
pable of afTording an independent support for themselvos and their 
families, and, consccpientlj', not above one in fifty of the whole ! It 
has been ascertained, also, that during one year, of the 47,571 aliea 
passengers, 38,057 had no occnpatioii! and that 4G,445 had not 
adequate means to establish themselves in business. More than 
cue-half of these were from England, Ireland and Scotland. By 
far the greatest number is now from Germany and Ireland. The 
ratio of annual immigration will be seen to have doubled icithin the 
ten years, from 1830 to 1840! If this ratio should continue, as un- 
doubtedly it will, our country and our institutions, as every one 
must see, will soon be in the hands of foreigners ; if, in truth, they 
may not be said to be at the present moment. 

Bell's (London) Messenger said, awhile since, "efforts, such as 
acerc never made before, are making to increase immigration from 
this country, partly from political and partly from economical mo- 
tives." Wo are unblushingly and tauntingly told, too, by another 
foreign paper, that our country is "as good as conquered!''^ 
" There are annually," says a writer, "more than 120,000 immi- 
grants from England and Ireland alone P^ If so, then there is, very 
certainly, more than an equal number from all other countries, or 
250,000 in the whole ! A distinguished German writer states that 
there are from 35,000 to 500,000 immigrants who arrive in Ameri- 
ca annually ; and the London Encyclopedia confirms this, and 
urges the British Government to deplete its population by sending 
out a million of ivimigrants a year ! It then coolly calculates the 
cost at five pounds sterling a head, which is treble the amount they 
pay for landing the sweepings of their alms-houses and jails at the 
present time ! It is .said that they now pay five dollars a head for 
passage money, and that their provisions cost about ten dollars 
each. 

Another German writer, speaking advisedly, it seems, says, 
" the relative value of the German and English hinguageson this 
Continent, tiinc will only ascertain !" He says the "complaint is 
that it is made to appear that England was " the common mother 
of us all." 

" Wc nay," continues he, "that, on Iho fonfrary, there arc mofr. Germans 
and their dctundonlx than Evulifh and ihrir descendants here (!) and, al- 
though groat numlKTS (.iniorrato from tlic ports of the British Islands; yet, 
from one port (Liverpool), thrcefourlhs of those wlio take passage iVonitliencc 
are Germans! lictirecn /ivc and six mlUiflns in this country arc Gcr- 
vians (!) more than hafpj vhom have come irilhin the last ten years (!) and 
svch preparations arc inukini; in the German States, comprising a population 
of seventy millions, to| emigrate to the Western Stales of this country, that, in 



rOREION IMMIGUATION. 19 

all probability, from 300,000 to 500,000 (Germans) ^ciU come annuaUi/ who, 
added to </iei/ coinitnjmen o\Tcvidy \\ctc, will make nine million?, ten years 
hence {!) exclusive of the natural Increase! Such a body of people are not to 
be overlooked or thrown into the shadeP' 

" The increase of po\ver and strength of these States will, beyond a doubt, 
cause their dissolution and then, as a matlerof course, the dificrent communi- 
ties will speak their native language ! Any partij to rule here must have their 
support ; and they will all, to a man, advocate the admission of their friends 
and relations, yet to arrive, to all the privileges granted to and enjoyed by them- 
selves ! Germany, from natural causes, must furnish the inhabitants to people 
the interior of this vast and most fertile Continent. Various causes combined 
tend to produce a state of thing-s which will, a quarter of a century hence, show 
a greater German population in America, thaji in Germany itself! Why, 
then, should wc not preserve our language, and complain of not being allowed 
our importance m political afiliirs ? Oliio and the other Western States will 
one day prove a J^''cvi Germany .'" 

Will not this be true ; and what will be the effects upon us and 
our posterity if it be so ? 

There were, it is said, 30 years ago, not more than one in forty 
of our inhabitants who were foreigners ; but now, it is believed, 
there are one in five ! Think of this, countrymen, and calculate for 
yourselves how long before it will be true that, as they say, " wc are 
born to be their masters T Fifteen years will scarcely elapse, 
countrymen, before we shall be in the minority ! In view of such 
a result — for Americans, though they rapidly but gradually give 
way, will not yield up all they hold dear without a struggle — a 
writer says, — 

" The political seer, who is now casting his horoscope, often covers his eyes 
with his hands, to hide the streams of blood that roll before him !" 

The late scenes in Philadelphia are examples of what has been 
seen and what we shall soon see, if we do not immediately and ef- 
fectually act on the defensive. 

The ti'aflic in the transportation of foreign paupers, and foreign- 
ers generally, is a disgrace to those of our countrymen engaged iu 
it. Many ships, owned in and sailing out of the port of New 
York, have, for year?, been engaged in this worse than slave-trade, 
but a truly profitable business have the owners made of it. For- 
tUHes have thus been amassed by these shippers, alias merchants, 
who are now rolling in wealth, and who have cast upon our shores 
innumerable cargoes of foreign paupers. This is too serious a 
matter to pass unnoticed. The most artful and deceptive means 
have been adopted, too, to gather together these cargoes of foreign 
paupers and criminals. " Runners" have been and now are em- 
ployed to scour every hole and corner of Ireland and Germany, es- 
pecially. Ale-houses, poor-houses, jails and prisons have been 
ransacked to collect the offscourings, refugees and criminals to 
complete the cargoes of human flesh for our country. These 
pimps, runners and supercargoes have, in turn, made their part of 
this profitable trade, by their commissions, per capita. Handbills 
are also circulated throughout the interior towns, and filled with 



20 FOREIGN IMMIaRATIO^f. 

the grossest falsehoods as to the wages and the other advantages 
they could obtain in the United Stales — the offices they could se- 
cure, and the demands made for their services and influence. — 
Their comiiryuien here have been hired to address letters to 
friends aod acquaintainces, extolling this country and misrepresent- 
ing the wages and the political power obtained here; and a still 
greater number of reputed letters have been forged, to carry out 
more at large this neflirious pauper trade. 

Great numbers of immigrants have bitterly complained, on ar- 
riving here, of the deceptions thus practiced upon them ; and many 
have been made wretched thereby. Hundreds of thousands would 
never have come to this country at all under other circumstnnces. 
The character of the men thus engaged in such a business, will be 
belter conceived than described ; and yet such men profess to be 
Americans ! True, the majority are foreign intrcltanls (.') or alien 
importers in our sca-poil?. But, practiced by o.ny one, the traffic is 
not a shade better than the slave-trade, while it is cupidity and trea- 
son in the one and heartless knavery and foreignism in the other. 

Many of these pauper-speculators, in their eagerness to make 
profitable jobs, take more passengers than the law allows; and 
great sufferings are the consequence. Many women come out 
after their husbands; and, gelling out of provisions, depend upon, 
the cold and stinted charity of the captain. In a case before us, 
the captain made the women work day and mght in the capacity 
of sailors ; and when they entered this port they were dressed as 
sailors; he fearing the consequence of having loo many passen- 
gers. 

In addition to the " passenger-hunters," the false promises of 
"hio'h wages," "chenp living," " large and long jobs," "political 
power and the emoluments of office" — there haie been and still are 
great numbers who, having done well, or so much better here than 
they could do at home, have wrillen for iheir friends and paid their 
passages. 

Vast sums are remitted by the Irish in this country to their coun- 
trymen, "to cnab'.e their friends to come to the land of their adop- 
tion." The amount thus remitted to Ireland through five houses 
in the city of New York, and negotiated by one j)erson only (an 
Irishman), was found, according to foreign records, within a fevT 
years prior to 1838, to have been £521,400! or $-2,2->8,G02 40 
Calrulaling the average price of passage at £2, this amount has 
brought to our shores 2(32,230 paupers, or those without means to 
pay their passage; besides children and others obtaining their 
passages at a le.'.s price. Suppose "the pauper importing houses," 
and consequently the number imported, to have been double, and 
also one fourth more money to have bcin remitted by friends and 
other private means, the sum will have been $5,57 1,505 of our 
own money sent from New York alone to import 590,000 Irish I 



FOREIGN IMMIORATXOK. 21 

In view of these facts, a madly partizan paper of this city exclaim- 
ed: "th\s ii;ralifj/inq fact spca/cs well for the character of our Irish 
population!" How " gratifying:" then to suck citizens must be 
the reflection that such a popuhition has since increased, bj' suck 
means, in a two foKI ratio and that a large portion of the whole 
have been supported by the labor and industry of our American cit- 
izens ! 

A Philadelphia paper said, a few days since, 

" On yesterday two more vessels arrived at this jmrt from Liverpool and 
Londonderry, filled to tiic very decks with the lowest, poorest and most filthy 
kind oflrish. We are assured by a gentleman of veraeity that llu; stench wliidi 
arose from these peoj)Ie, as they came npon the shore, was of" the most oflensivn 
j<ind disgiistinii' kind. We dare say onr Alms House will be well filled ere 
Hong; and oui^Criminal Comt will have an additional business during the 
term." * ■* * * " Mure dc^ccnilcnd: of the nun who fought ovr Rcvuluiion/i- 
ry balllcs ! Two vessels are now in the river with 417 iniigr*nts on board. 
Anotjher is reported below." 

A characterless alien quotes this in his paper in this city and ex" 
presses his " indignant abhorcnct at such a spiiit," — as would thu^ 
state a simple and unvarnished fact. The reason is obvious; he 
would not have our countrymen acquainted with the introduction 
of 5?ic/t masses of foreign pauper.?. Our American papers must not 
therefore mention it ! Oh, no ! What tame fools these foreigners 
Avould make us ! 

Large associated bodies of immigrants have lately come to this 
eountry, and still larger are coming, according to Europeaa ac- 
counts, most of whom have signified their determination to retain 
and practice all their foreign habits, languages, religion, eto^ These 
are chiefly from Germany and Ireland. The latter and a part of 
the former are to be under the charge of Romish priests. Spec- 
ulators often go out to send over immense numbers of mechanics 
and laborers, all of which, of course, tend to ruin, mir oion mecha- 
nics and laborers. A person went from Illinois to Germany some 
time since, to obtain and send out from 50,000 to 100,000 laborers 
on speculation. 

Foreigners are attracted to this country in numerous ways. The 
Mormon doctrines have thus attracted many thousands. The ma- 
jority of the dupes and fanatical adherents of Joe Smith are aliens, 
or have not been in this country five years ; yet we see that they ex- 
ercise all the rights of native citizens and even many more, with an 
audacity, too, characteristic only of foreigners. Mercantile busi- 
ness attracts immense numbers, and already have those in this bu- 
siness almost entirely rooted out all our native merchants doing 
business on foreign nccount: S5 per cent, of all the trade thus done 
in this city, is now done by aliens and adopted citizens! This 
draws quite a number of foreign clerks, who are always employed 
bythem in preference to Americans. Foreign agents, porters and 
laborers are also preferred, and hence tens of thousands of our 



2-2 rOREIGN IMMICRATION. 

own countrymen, with families, are thrown out of employment. 
Tims, too, money is drawn from us to suppoit iheir countrymen 
and to deprive ours of bread ! And when these foreign agents 
have accumulated fortunes which they generally do in a few years, 
they go home to spend it! All European theatricals, mountc- 
banlis, quacks, and speculators, do the same thing. They rob us 
of our money and they laugh at or lampoon us when ihey get 
home. Whereas, if we had a spark of sense, or patriotism, we 
would encourage nallue talent, and save our money to reward it. 
Besides, the preference we foolishly give to foreign goods, attracts 
them in large numbers to our country, both for the sale and man- 
ufacture of goods. There is scarcely a department of business in 
this country in which Americans have not now to contend for a 
mere living, and scarcely that, for themselves and families. Our 
mechanics feel this most sensibly. Every one of the great produ- 
cing classes of our country feels it keenly. Was it not patriotic, 
then, in Jefferson, in wishing that there was a sea of fire between 
this country and Europe.'' 

The amount of emigration this year, it is generally believed, will 
far exceed all previous years. The tide of foreign speculation, the 
hopelessness oi repeal, the arrogant demands of the Romish Church 
for political influence, and the renewed energies of the "Holy Al- 
liance'' of tyranls'engaged in satisfying its demands, with the fact, 
perhaps, that a part of the vast sum clutched from the poor in Ire- 
lanl and this country, for the purpose of " agitation," are now used 
to transport more of the ignorant and wretched to our shores — all 
contribute to this event. 

So rapid has been immigration from parts of Great Britain, that 
some political economists were at one lime alarmed. It was the 
policy of European knaves, as expressed in 1802, to 'jircvent immi- 
gration to this country, because it might add to our nu.nerical 
strength, and because their plans for our subsidation had not then 
been concoctfd. It is at least worth while to enquire what has so 
changed their policy. 

It was stated in a paper a year or two ago: " Since the 15th of 
March last more than oG.OOO foreign passengers arrived at this 
port, among which there were 125 cases of small pox, and 144 of 
ship fevers ; hence the great prevalence of small pox in our city 
during the year, carrying oflflumdreds of our citizens!" 

The New Orleans Native American says: "Few are aware of 
the number of foreigners daily arriving among us. Hundreds and 
hundreds arrive, and wander about, without any certain object." 

Should the number of immigrants double within the ton years, 
from 1840 to 1H50 — half of which has passed — as it did between 
the ten years previous, we should all an addition of three millions 
to our foreign population ; in 1860 six million<;, in 1870 licelce 7nil- 
Hons, and in 1880 twenty-four millions! Thus, in 35 years — a 



FOREIGN immi(;ration. 23 

period not very distant in the view of any one of us, and especially 
in that of our sons, we shall have an accumulation of thirty-eight 
millions of foreigners', beside all those now in the country, who 
Avill see witli Americans, but with far di{ii;rent feelings, the mighty 
foreign flood which then, and probably long before will have borne 
down and swept away almost every landmark of American 
freedom. It is the whim of an enthusiast that delights many of our 
countrymen at seeing our country filling up with such rapidity and 
our public lands absorbed by foreigners, to the exclusion of our 
sons, who are thus cheated out of every foot of good soil for their 
industry, and of their political rights and privileges. It is a whim, 
•we say, to be thus delighted with the idea of numbers and with the 
latitude given for bonsting of our numerical strength. But, even 
the vast number we have contemplated would not perhaps possess 
the power manifested by the three millions oi Americans, de facto, 
during the Revolution Hearts united as were those of the com- 
paratively few in days of honesty and patriotism, were an invincible 
bulwark around the altar of freedom ; such as we can scarcely hope 
for at* this day, though our numbers are seven-fold. All history 
sho\fs that numbers have not insured victory in battle or happiness 
in society. Modern nations, indeed, are a sad example of the con- 
trary. Need we look farther than to the wretched millions now 
toiling out their lives within a twelve days' passage from our doors ? 
Why do we seek then to make, as with steam power, our own 
cherished country a counterpart of the oppressed nations near and 
around us? Why would we cngulph our countrymen in the scenes 
of woe presented us in all their horror from the shores of Europe? 
Is it true that "charity begins at home?" — is it a sound prin- 
ciple that " self-de.''ence is the first law of nature '2" — and is it a 
Christian axiom that "he who provides not for his own household 
is worse than a barbarian V If so, then let us act prudently while 
yet we are allowed to do so. That we sympathise with the wretched 
and that we would relieve their wretchedness and protect their in- 
terest, is the profoundest feeling of our souls ; and, that we would 
have them content with our doing so, is equally the sentiment of 
our judgment. But to claim our rights as instruments against us 
is not to be borne. Was it not wise then in Jcllcrson, foreseeing 
as he did the results of inmiigration, to question the policy, even in 
his day, of offering extraordinary inducements for immigrmls: and 
did he not foretell, with almost prophetic speech and vision, the con- 
sequences of our policy on this subject ? 



24 rOREIGN PAUPERS. 

FOREIGN PAUPERS AND CRI^^NALS. 

It is as well known to our countrymen as pcrhapp any other fact, 
in connection with this subject, that a large portion of emigrants — 
men, women and children — from foreign courttries, are paupers;. 
that they come here'as such, and that we are compelled to support 
them; and oftentimes during their natural lives. This, as may 
■well be imagined, is a grievous burthen to our countrymen, and yet 
we tamely submit to it without a decent respect for ourselves, and 
without remonstrating against the practice of sending them here, by 
special provisions of European governments. By the reports of the 
Commissioners of the Poor in England and Ireland, they have not 
only continued to transport their paupers to our country with all the 
means in their power, but tliey have petitioned Parliament for that 
body to provide for transporting them in still larger numbers to 
America. An Englishman has informed us that he has often wit- 
nessed large bodies of paupers marched down from the poorAouses 
in various towns on the coast of England, and their passage% paid 
to America by the commissioners. Niles' Register contained, some 
time since, the following, in confirmation of this : " The Commis- 
sioners of the Poor in England recommend that Parliament pass an 
act authorizing the different parishes in England to raise money for 
the purpose of sending the most vicious and vorthless of their pa- 
rishes — such as arc irreclaimable — out of that country to thisP* 
But this Avas as extensively practised before as it has been since. 

Can it be a gratifying spectacle to out countrymen — even to politi- 
cians — thus to witness their country as the great pauper house of 
Europe? Can they be gratified by the reflection that swarms of 
hungry and naked foreign mendicants are emptied upon our shores 
to be supported by their industry and labor? The politician says, 
liowever, " these creatures are as good materials for our party pur- 
poses as any others; and a leclle belter." And not a little either, 
we might add, ior they can be easily found at our elections and 
can be bought up " at reduced prices," even without price by our 
parlizan authorities; but the piople arecovipellfd to '■foot the bill.'* 
Yes: these things are let out of their quarters in tiiis city, and oficn- 
limes in sufficient numbers to control the elections, and arc scented 
to the polls where they neutralize the votes of the same number o 
t'ur countrymen, who are taxedTo support them in their idleness 
and in their privilege (o vote away their property and their rights 
Oh! exalted privilege! indulgent tax-payers! glorious America7i 
suflrnge ! 



rOREIGN FACPBRS AND CRIMINALS. 26 

Of the number of alien passengers," says a la(c paper, "who are 
rived at this port (New York) during a month, last year, one hun- 
dred applied to the Commissioners cf the Alms HouoC in this city, 
immediately after landing, most of whom had Iheir passages paid 
by the parishes from which they had been sent." And one of our 
Alms House Commissioners stated to us, " I have seen one of the 
passenger-ships ^//e(/ with paupers aloneJ" And further, "when 
entire cargoes now come out, it has been ascertained that the par- 
ishes have paid their expenses ; and we freiiuonlly hear the same 
thing from the pauper passengers. Indeed, they have no other 
mode of getting here. It is covcmoiifor them to walk directly from 
the ship to the Alms House, and ask for admission.''' Thus ihe 
charities which belong to the unfortunate among our own country- 
men are almost entirely absorbed in supporting worthless and 
miserable mendicants, criminals and refugees from Europe ! The 
report of a gentleman in this city, made some time since to and by 
request of a committee of Congress on this and collateral subjects, 
has the following among numerous other important facts : "It is 
stated on authority entitled to credit, that " the steerage passages 
of more than thirty thousand persons have been paid from Ireland 
England and Scotland alone, to enable them to leave there for Am- 
erica, most of whom have arrived at this port." The commission- 
ers state that " there are not over one-fourth of the emigrants who 
come to this country that possess means to obtain a comfortable 
support for themselves and families on arriving here." Of the 1209 
admitted to the hospital that year, 20G only were native Americans ; 
that is, one American to sia: foreigners, or in the proportion of one 
to every 44 of the latter in our city, and of 1233 of the former. Of 
•those assisted from the Alms House, more than two-thirds Vfexe 
foreigners. Of the 3,332 persons in the Bridwell, Alms House and 
Penitentiary, 2,015 were foreigners. 

In view of these facts, the commissioners well remark, ''This ex- 
hibit justifies the demand for increased commutation fees, and points 
to the necessity of enforcing all laws touching the introduction of 
foreign emigrants." But, how widely different and shameless has 
bsen the course of politicians who have had charge of this matter 
in this and some other cities. Instead of the law requiring i^l per 
capita, as formerly, and justly charged and enforced, too, by an Am- 
erican Mayor, the charge is now nominally nothing; so that oar 
countrymen have to support all the paupers foreign governments 
please to transport to our shores. And soon, if this is hereafter lo 

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2G FOREIGN I'AUPKRS AND CRIMINALS. 

be left to interested politicians, a premhun ^vill be ofTered, per head, 
for all the paupers that government? may rid themselves of, as well 
also as their criminals. All these creatures are ready tools, it will 
be home in mind, in the hands of priests and demagogues. 

A late order from the English Board of Poor Law Commissioners 
instructs the assistants to pay " particular attention to emigration," 
*' to raise money for emigration," etc. A report from a town acting i 
from these instructions, and accidentallyfalling into our hands, says : i 
'* Many vessels sail from this port to New York with emigrants, | 
and some American vessels have put in for the same purpose ; four i 
families have been sent out by the parish and are doing well ; the i 
expetise was paid, at once,owf of the rates and the cost of one large 
family was saved in two years !" The language of another report 
is, " to get rid of the most vicious and irreclaimable paupers by 
sending them to America P^ Large sums are raised for this pur- 
pose by private contributions, as well as by taxes ; and the foreign 
presses announce these facts with unblushing effrontery. There 
was raised, at one time, by a few of these towns, £2,473, or !$11,S20, 
to defray the expenses of 320 paupers to this country ! Thus the 
whole cost of transporting all the paupers of England, Ireland and 
Scotland, may be saved, as they calculate, in two years, by shipping 
them to the United States ! 

Europe is not idle in the business of colonizing this country with 
their paupers and criminals, as we shall hereafter show. These 
paupers increased from 28,106 in 1815, to 103,178 in 1S30; and the 
ratio has probably more than doubled during the last 15 years ! 
What a mass of the refuse populaiion of Europe has thus been thrown 
upon our shores since 1790 ! Great numbers also come through 
Canada. One of these with a large family, came awhile since di- 
rectly to our Alms House, as he staled to our city commissioners, 
"under and by advice of ///e Canadian autlioritics, for tlie express 
purpose of getting his wife and family foisted upon mirAlmsJi07tse.^' 
He had numerous begging petitions to use on his way, but finding 
he did not succeed so well as he expected, he broke out in curses 
against the United States. Numerous pauper lunatics, of which 
there are 13,000 in England alone, are among those sent here. 

It is found that the proportion of foreign paupers to those of our 
counlrynien, throughout the country, is more than two to one. 
Only ^5000, it is said, of the $120,000 expended for charitable pur- 
poses in New Orleans, goes to the relief of native citizens ! This 
proportion is similar here and in others of our Atlantic cities. Of the 



FOREIGN PAUPERS AND CRIMINALS 27 

paupers admitted into the Boston House of Industry in six months, 52 
were Bostonians, and 150 were foreigners ! Four-fifths of the mea 
and three-fifths of tlie women had been intemperate. Well may a 
committee of a late New York Common Council say : " Our char- 
ilable insiilulions^are devoted almost exclusively to the relief of 
foreigners who have never contributed one cent towards them.^^ 

A fruitful source of pauperism is in the fact, that fathers deter- 
mined to retain their privileijes in our populous cities, where their 
political facilities and influence are greatest, go to the country for 
■work, and leave their wives and children to be supported by public 
or private charity. " In seven-tenths," said one of our commission- 
ers, " of the applicants for out-door relief during the last winter, the 
husbands of the Irish women making the application, were out of 
the city. They were very particular, hoicever, to be here to vote 
at the Spring election P^ He justly says, further, "the native 
citizen will not go to the Alms House, unless his circumstances 
admit of no improvement ; while an Irishman wants to go there 
whenever his toe aches.'" A German is more averse to going there. 
Englishmen are the most impudent and troublesome inmates. The 
French and the other vagrants enter in less numbers. It should 
^'e observed that a considerable number of foreign paupers arc intro- 
duced through the Canadas, New Jersey and the Eastern States, 
who are received without bond or commutation fees. 

Thirty-eigiU thousand and fifty-seven aliens have arrived 
in New York during nine months, who have had no occupation 
lehaterer, or in other words, were paupers. And, on a closer ex- 
amination — for organ grinders and such kind of trash are reckoned 
as " arhs)!s" and having business — it appears that of 49,004 arri- 
ving in this port, but 1198 were provided with means of supporting 
themselves and those depending upon them. From a calrulation 
made in the report to the committee of Congress before referred to> 

t appears that the amount expended during seven years by the au_ 
thorities of this city alone, for the support of foreign paupers, Avas 
^975,016 10, and that for our own countrymen was §325,005 30, or 
one-third. Estimating the same number of paupers for other parts 
of the country, in proportion to population, and how vast is the sum 
taken from us for the support of foreign poor ! And for what ? 

More than $50,000 is annually paid by tax upon the citizens o^ 
New York for the support of foreign paupers alone ! beside all the 

ontributions of our numerous charitable associations and of indivi* 
^ uals. it may be seen that the annual expenses of our Alms 



28 KOREIGN PAFPER6 AND CRIMINALS. 

House liave more than doubled during the last ten years ! ThC' 
increase has been just in proportion to immigration. Thus in 1834J 
the expenses were ,S119,2li 78, while in 1813 they were ^25l,00OJ 
It may be asked in this connection, why it is thai the vast sums 
jaised here by Ibreigncr-associalions, and '" Repealers,''^ and sent 
to fill the pockets of these agitators,"' etc.. are not given to support 
their countrymen, whom our citizens arc compelled to support by 
public charity ? It has been well said, in view of foreipfn pauperism 
in this city, by a committee of the Common Council : '' In fact our 
public charities arc principally for the benelit of foreigners. The 
immense number of persons arriving at this port, fleeing from the 
poverty, starvation and oppression of Europe, is certainly calculated 
not only to excite our sympathy, but to create a well-founded alarm 
as to the resultsof our municipal prosperity, as well as the character 
and morality of our population. The greater number of these emi- 
grants are absolutely pennyless, and reeking with the accumulated 
filth which long confinement on ship-board and an habitual want of 
cleanliness produce. They almost all immediately roam the streets, 
a band of houseless mendicants, or apply to your alms-houses. 
Clime succceeds destitution ; your prisons are filled ; your hos- 
pitals are crowded uith them, and your public treasury is spent 
upon those who never contrihulcd to the general welfare .'"' "And 
further: ''The Alms House is full — containing at this moment 
3,074, of which about three-fourths are foreigners .'" " How many 
more foreigners live upon private charities," says another report* 
"let the swarms of mendicants who daily and nightly throng our 
streets, attest." 

By a report made by Messrs. Miller and Gale of the present New 
York Common Council, it appears tliat the number of white adults in 
the AIm3 House, Asylun), and Penitentiary, i^ 2,790, and that of this 
Jiumber 1881, or more than two thirds are foreifrnfrs ! — " and the .«:irae 
proportion," say they, " undoubtedly exists among the inmates of our 
prisons," clc. "The disbursements of the city in support of this esta- 
blisiimcni during the year, amounted to $251,000 ! witiiout reference 
to ific interest on the vast sums invested in the necessary grounds and 
buildings." The city received, during the year, $7,312 for the support 
of bonded pnsscngers, and $5,922 "or commulatiim of alien emigrants 
; — total $1:{,2(M — to bo credited to "alien pauperiwi.^' Thus it will 
be seen tlial " the ciiy of New York is directly taxed," says the report, 
" to the amount of $150,000 a year/or the support of alien paupers and 
vagrants^ The committee justly enquire, in view of this oneroua tax 



FOREIGN PADPBRg AND CRIMINALS. (29 

.and imposition upon our citizens, "Is this burthen justly thrown en- 
tirely upon the lax-paying citizens of New York ? Is the evil of u hich 
they complain altojrether beyond the reach oJ remedial Ipgislation?" 
And they conc'iulc that " it is clearly within the ability and the duty of 
the Federal Government to remedy the evil." They also suirgest that 
this should bo brought before Congress without delay, "to equalize 
this burthen, if not to arrest the excessive pauper immigration which 
inducer it." 

"It cannot be denied," continues the report, " that the Alms House 
establishment has been made subservient to party puiposes; and that 
sturdy paupers abundantly ;ible to maintain themselves by hard labor, 
have been supported there in idleness at the expense of the tax-paying 
citizens, and, as would seem, for no other purpose than that of securing 
suffrages for the dominant parly ! The State election is no sooner over 
than crowds of able-bodied piupers throng our Alms House. They 
are fed, clothed and lodged well during the inclement season of the 
year; and, in the Spring, wiihout having contributed a penny in money 
or labor for their winter's entertainment, they are marched up to the 
polls to vote away the rights and property of self-supporting laborers and 
independent citizens P' In conneclion with these facts, the committee 
make some excellent suggestions as to the employhaent of these foreign 
pauper voters, alias "better Americans," _//eeme7J, and "lords of the 
American ballot-box." Similar evils exist in other large cities of our 
country; and they have become too numerous and aggravated for a 
people having any respect or regard for themselves and for our insti- 
tutions, longer to be tolerated. The report and bill of the Congres- 
sional Committee raised on this subject and the Naturalization laws in 
1833- -Hon. iMr. Russell of Washington county, N. Y., chairman — pro- 
vided against the increase of this foreign pauperism amontr us. It is 
very apparent that the evil can and shou'd at once arrest the attention 
of cur countrymen and ofmcmbers of Congress. 

The characteristic benevolence of our countrymen (and why should 
we be so much more benevolent to foreigners than foreigner.", or foreign 
governments are to ilieir own countrymen?) was evinced by the people 
of Charleston raising $4000 in one day for sick foreigneis there. Mas- 
sachusetts supports vast numbers of foreign poor. "Who fills your 
Alms Houses .'"said a bombastic Irish orator, at a great meeting of his 
countrymen, in this city, " biU our unfortunate countrymen ? Send them 
to us and we shall make them SM/j/Jor/ers instead of dependants of Alms 
Houses," (that i?, S!t/)por<ers o/'.^mericanj.) What an insult! "Am-' 
erica asks no better men to work'; and when the stars and stripes rae 



so FORKIGN PACPKRS AND CRIMINALS. 

floating in the breeze, she asks no belter men to fight her battles .'" Yes, 
sucli '• no better men" as the Irish Greens, Jiear the lines during the 
hist war and other places, who thought it better for bcttir men to fi^ht 
our battles, and so thought it best to run nway ! 

Facts like the following are often revealed at our courts : Mil- 
ler, was convicted of stealing a coaf. '^Court — How \ov^ have you 
been in this country ? i-*;i's.— Ten years, sir. Court — Where have 
you been all that time? Pris. — Seven years in the Alms House and 
eighteen months in the Bellevue Hospital ! Court — Profitable citizen ! 
Go to the Penitentiary six months, and pay your way by getting out 
stone." 

The "accredited immigrant agent" at Montreal, says, after enume- 
rating the masses of immigrant paupers arriving there : " The remain- 
der went directly to }'ermo7it and A'ew York. Of 9507 Irish paupers, 
S625 came up the St. Laicrence, along the borders of New York .'" 

The "Emigrant Committee " of Montreal close a long report on for- 
eign paupers, by sayinn:: "We cannot close without pressing upon 
the attention of the British Government and its Emigrant ^'igents as 
well as Emigrant Associations, in Ireland and Great Britain, the im- 
portance oi selecting good vessels," etc. This is cool, and important, 
withal. 

Great numbers of paupers preferring liberty to the pauper-house, 
accost our citizens daily ; and a large proportion ofthese are of the most 
dissolute and intemperate character. A recorded example will illustrate 
all we need say of half of them: " For the honor of God, hear me," 
said an old woman a few days since, to a benevolent citizen, "lam 
five days in your country and I am starving with 7ny lillle ones." She 
was taken to a grocery store ; a quantity of bread and ham — ns much 
as she could carry away, was given her. A clerk tullowed her to a 
grog shop, where she bartered the whole for a bottle of blue ruin and 
a sixpince. 

No wonder, in view of these facts, that tlie English greatly felici- 
tate themselves of late in the fact, and exclaim, " The lower orders of 
our population have been greatly improved by the immigiation to the 
United States of thousayids of the idle, lazy and dissolute /" No wonder 
Ca\)U IVLirryatt, one of the "distinguished foreigners," whom Ameri- 
cans are so fond of, yet who, on getting home, lampoon and slander 
us 80 outrageously, exclaims " What cargoes of ci^ime, folly and reck- 
lessness do tec yearly ship off to America .'" 

Our interior ia also crowded with foreign paupers. AVc aro told by 
the town and county odicers of this Stale, that they have been obliged 
to erect new and large buildings, and to appropriate large sums annu_ 
ally for the support of the constantly increasing numbers of foreign 
poor. This 18 complained of throughout the whole Slate of New 



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FOREIGN PAUl'ERS AND CRIMINALS. 31 

York, nnd we hear ol like complaints from other States, not only froai 
the interior of our Atlantic States, but all through our western States. 
The evil, fungus-like, is rapidly growinnr hy •what it feeds upon ; and it 
has now so fastened itself upon the whole body of the American people 
fhat it hangs a loathsome mass upon every community and corporation 
throughout our once pure and hcalthlul country. Three-fourths of 
this pauperism is the result of intemperance, moral depravity and sheer 
idleness. What should our countrymen think of these things? Is it 
not obvious that, true to their expressed purpose, the governments of 
Europe are constantly pouring in upon us their " vicious and irre- 
claimable paupers." And what thanks do we get for all our trouble, 
all our sympathy, all our expenses ? Why, to be cheated of our rights, 
to suffer their riots, and their violations of our laws, to be robbed of 
our property, lo have our lives threatened, nay taken by them I And 
is there to be no end to these physical, moral and political evils ? Are 
they to grow upon us, as they have for years past, with an accelerated 
rapidity and force ? 

The number of paupers in London, receiving in and out relief, i» 
77,186. There are in Liverpool 7868 cellars, " dark, damp and diIty,^ 
in which live from two to six families, with but one outlet. Of the 
123,232 working people in Manchester, 14,960 live in cellars. In 772 
houses, in Bury, each bed serves for 4 persons ; each of 907 beds serred 
for 5, and 78 for 6 persons. In Bristol, 46 per cent, of the working- 
classes have but one room. Other manufacturing districts in England 
and Scotland are equally wretched, and hence the character of the large 
numbers coming here from thence. In addition to all out-door relief 
the N. Y. Dispensary, it is said, has furnished in one year, gratuitous 
advice and medicine to near 18,000 persons, and one-third at their 
dwellings ; about two-thirds of whom were foreigners. A Charleston 
paper says : "Mr. Mooney, the Irish travelling Repeal agitator in this 
country, is taking up collections among us for the support of Uvo or 
three hundred thousand foreign paupers who have not yet arriyed in 
this country !" In the Hospital at St. Louis the proportion of foreign- 
ers to Americans was four to one ! In nine months there were 247 
foreigners and 65 Americans — all sent by one officer. 

The recent importations of paupers from Genoa are cases of extraor- 
dinary atrocity. Three vessels have arrived within a few days into this 
port, with the most ugly and lazy paupers from that place ; and we nov 
find them strolling about our streets, begging and thieving. Mvst we 
onger submit to these outrages? 

We take the following as we find it in one of our public prints: 
"From the recent annual report of the Commissioners of the A!m» 



32 rOREIQN PACPERS UtiO CRIMI!fAL3. 

House in tliis city, tlie whole number of pnupers relieved or supported at 
tlie county poor liouscs diirinir llie la-st yenr,(in ihis Slate,) wasGl,203. 
The niiinl)(;r temporarily relieved was lG.i241. The int-rcase in num- 
ber was G 713. Tiie cxpensi's connected with the county j>i.ior houses 
fur the year was S;i85.74'2 50. Tlie estiiualed value of ihe lahor of 
the i)Ui[)ers was 8'''J,l>.'i2 32. The tiiimbc-r ol cliikiren under IG years 
is 2217. The wliole expense Ir.r the poor from the year 1630 to 1840, 
has been §!4,74S,403. They have since increased one-half, probably." 

The stale of the people of Ireland, and consequently the character 
of the immigrants from that island to this country, may bo seen by 
facts stated by CConnell, t!ie '"agitator" himself, who is rolling in 
wealth at the expense of iiis wretched countrymen, with the exception 
of the re.-jiite the people are just now enjoying bj' his rightcoiis im- 
prisonment, during which to attend to the means of getting an honest 
living, lie says : 

"In 1834 the Commissioners of the Poor Liws reported 2,385,000 
in a slate of deslilution, upon a population of 8,000,000 — more than 
one-fuxnlh of tlie whole pt)pulalion ! that 70 per cent, of ihe rural popu- 
lalio'; were living in huts ol one room only — that 30 per cent, of the 
town population, families, were living in one room, and in some in- 
stances, several fimilies in that one room. The relroijreseion ot a 
population of 70,000 a year ! (all probably going to America,) is a most 
convincing proof of misery and wretchediicsi--," etc. 

Notwithstanding the shipment of* all the vicious and irreclaimable," 
of her criminals and wretched to America, it should not be forgotten 
that Great Britain claims these and all others here, from her dominions^ 
as " htr suljects,^^ whenever she wants thini ; so that all we feed, clothe, 
reform, are still the suhjccts of Great Britain. One of the public pa- 
pers in this city, edited and owned by an alien and at war with the in* 
dustrial inttrcsts and the producing classes of native Americans ; that 
is, our Mechanics, Farmers, Man\faclurers and Laborers, says: 

" They can never renounce their allegiance, and are olway/f 
subject to her imperial tuics, no matter liovv far they travel, or tor 
what h'n>j;lh of lime they may reside abroad ! It is maile felony for .mu 
Englishman to hold a elave in the United Stales." And " he may, under 
tlie exiradilion-clausc of ihe treaty of Wnjsliinglon, be demanded of 
ihis government and punished in England for doing (hat in this 
country uhich is not against its taxes, even atthm/gh he may be a 
naluralizid citizen, and as such entitled to the protection of this 
government.'''' 

Secret instructions have been communicated to all the English con- 
suls here, to find out and inform of all violations of this law in tliis 
country. Is not this acknowledging the jiower of England over uur 
citizens, and that all from her dominions, Ireland iiicluiled, arc still 
'' liritish subjects " ? 

It has been elated by the London Police that, "the mo3t artful of all 
the robbers they have had [o contend with arc now in the United 



FOREIGN PAUPERS AMD CRIMINALS. 33 

States ;" and we have been told tiiat the most desperate robbers wliich 
infest our city arc from tliat quarter. Had Mr. llusseira bill passed 
in Congress, (befoio alluded to,) such Americans would have to show 
their hand before coming here. But '.he politicians of Congress had 
belter use for them. It is said that seven-eights of the prisoners now 
on BlackwcWs Island, exclusive of blacks, are foreigners ! 

When we see so vast an amount of crime and immorality in London, 
need we wonder that so many of our criminals are disgorged from that 
city upon our shores. But for such hordes of felons and paupers from 
that and other parts of Europe, the United States would be, indeed, a 
free and happy country. Of the one and a half millions of people in 
that metropolis, there arc from 500,000 to 800,000 who live in utter dis- 
regard ot all religious duties ; 12,000 children are always training in 
crime, graduating in vice, to reinforce and perpetuate the great system 
of iniquity ; 3000 persons are receivers of stolen property, speculalora in 
human depravity; 4000 are annually committed for criminal offences; 
10,000 are addicted to gambling; above 20,000 to street begging, and 
30,000 are living by crime and fraud. This dreadful energy of evil is 
fed with 3,000,000 pounds sterling worth of spirituous liquors annually ; 
15,000 are habitual drinkers; 23,000 are annually found drunk in the 
streets. The number abandoned to systematic debauchery and profli. 
gacy is 150,000, — 80,000 receive the wages of prostitution, of whom 
8,000 die annually ; groceries, dens of infamy and guilt, gin palaces 
Leer shops, etc., throughout that city, swell the amount of guilt to a 
fearful height ; and other cities are no less distinguished in proportion 
to population. Of 19,927 convicted of felony in Engiand in 1840, 
4105 were transported, of whom 390 only could read the Bible. 

The English themselves now complain of the influx of the Irish la- 
borers and poor into En<;!and ; and they say, *' they bring wiih them a 
ponderous load of barbarism and vice." Their conviction for drunk- 
enness and crime seems to excite the same sympathy and ridicule there 
that it does here, while Englishmen, as with Anierican.s, are severely 
punished for the same crimes. This is all wrong. Tie English fear, 
as says Blackwood's Magazine, that the influx of the Irish will drive 
away to America a large portion of good Englishmen, mechanics, etc., 
and thus greatly benefit us! Now, we want neither English nor Irish, 
nor those of any other country, to benefit ns. "Jonathan is right," 
says the Reviewer, " and he has great cause to rejoice that the Irish 
are thu<! floo ling the lower classes of England- But," he continues} 
proper facililies ought to be afforded them for immigration to Am- 
erica, inntead of this country.'" A Louisville paper commenting on 

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S4 FOREIGN PAUPERS AKD CRIMINALS. 

this, says, "proper facilities have been aflbrded. ly vhich, probably 
t\s:o millions of llie very dregs and outcasts of the Briiisli eri-pire biive 
been thrown, naked, savage and barbarous upon our shoics, to cnrrupl 
our people, dei^radc oui national cliaraoier, and furnish malerial I'ur ihe 
Ainericun oflice-seeker. What ihink our nuiive-born Itlluw citizens 
of this freeman-manufacturing process ?" 

By letters from the U. S. Consuls, in reply to circulars issued by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, on the siilject of foreign v.ii;ranis and cii- 
minals — and it would seem to hive jusily excited the apprehension of 
our government itself — the Consul, F. List, Ejq. at Leipsio, says: 

"1 have made inquiries with respect to the transportaiion of paupers 
from this country to the Llnited Slates; but slate- affairs biin^ in liiis 
country not as openly conducted as mij;ht be dt sired, I have not hpcii 
successful until t)f late, when, by confideniial communication?, J have 
learned things which irilL require energetic measures on the part 
of the United States to be counteracted. [And wliy, with eui-li siari- 
Img facts at hand, have noi tliose nieasurrs been adoptf^d ?] Not only 
'paupers, but criminals, are transported from the interior of this 
country, in order to be embarked therefor the Llnited States .'" 

" A Mr. De Stein, fi)rMierly an officer in the service of ihe Duke of 
Saxe Gotha, has lately made proposiiions to the smaller states ol Sax- 
ony, FOR TRANsroKTiNG THEIR CRUiiHAUS lo the port of JJremen, and 

EMBARKING THEM THERE FOR THE UnITED StaTES AT SEVENTY f IVE 

DHLLARS PER head! which offer has been accepted by several of ihen). 
The first transport of criminals, who for the greater part have 
been condemcd to hard labor for life, (umong them two notorious 
iioBBERS, Pfeifkr and Albrecht,) will leave Gotha on the 1 Jih of 
tills month; and it is intendtd by and by, to empty all the work-houses 
and j liis of tliat country, in this manner!! There is liillc doubt that 
several other stales will imiiaie the nefarious prnciicc !! In ordi>r to 
stop it, I have sent an article into the General Gazette of Augsburg, 
wherein I have atiempied to denionPirnle that this behavior was con- 
trary to all laws of nations, that it was n shiimeftd b( h ivior towards a 
counlry which ofliTS the best inducement to German nianufacliirts." 

"It has of I:il^' also become a <rencral practice in ilic towns and bo- 
roughs of Germany, to get rid of their p;iupirs and vicious niemhers, hy 
collcciiniT th'' meaiksfor ( fl'.ciuaiing their passajic to the United Slates, 
among Ihe inhabilatiln, and by su|)pl3ing ihem fro;ii the public funds!' 

Does not this official letter to our government open your eyes 
fellow-ciiizons, to the character of the foreign imporlaions into Ihi^ 
counlry? Listen to anoliier official document. In a letter lo the Pre- 
sident, the Mayor of Raliimorc slates, "that "fourteen c 'Nvicts 
FROM Bremen had been i.ANnEi) there. They were ehipped in 

IRONS WIIICD were N'T TAKEN OFF TIM. THEY WERE NEAR FoRT 

McHenrv." W'c leave tltis without comment. 



IGNOBANCB OF KO FEIGNERS. 35 

POLITICAL UNOIIANCE 07 FOREIGNERS. 

No American, surely, will be so insensible to the nature of our in- 
stitutions, and the olt-repeatecl declarations of our statesmen and pa- 
triot sires, as not to see and feel that their continuance depends on the 
virtue and intelligence of the people. How then can he reconcile 
to himself, to his common sense and common honesty, the annual 
admission of hundreds of thousands to our shores and to the control 
of our institutions, most of whom are unable to read or speak our 
language, and those, too, who have long, or frequently, been the ten- 
ants of prisons and pauper houses — to say nothing of the deep- 
rooted foreign prejudices they always and necessarily must bring 
with them.'' Look at the slate of intelligence, even of forfign 
things, among the people of the nations whence flows the bulk of 
our immigrant population, and contrast this with the universal intel- 
ligence of our own countrymen : to say nothing, again, of the es- 
sential advantages of ours being their natural language, their na- 
tural country, and their natural brethren. What a contrast do wo 
see in all that is calculated to preserve pure and perpetual all we 
love and revere as Americans ! And is this not a conclusive ar- 
gument in favor of retaining in their hands, and in their hands only, 
the making and administering of our laws and the final destinies of 
our country .'' What say you, Americans .'' 

Constrast England, with all its boasted intelligence, with our 
own country. It was lately stated in Parliament that there are 
1,097,93 between the ages of 7 and 14, and 1,200,000 between the 
ages of 3 and 7 — making 2,297,602 between 3 and 14 — who re- 
i'.eive no school instruclion! It was also stated that in the district 
of London, not one in tivcntij receive any education ! and that in the 
manufacturing districts it is still worse. In one section, including 
Manchester and Liverpool, there is a population of 817,000 child- 
ren, 27,000 only of whom go to school ! Thus 820,000 of the 
above number, or oydi/ one in tkirty, receive any education w/iaterer ! 
And further, to show theefllct of education on crime; of the 23,097 
committed for criminal offences, 8,47<3could neither read nor write! 
6,G64 of whom were females, and 10,147 males. Only 2 194 could 
read and write well, and but ninety-eight males and three females 
were possessed of much higher education ! As a contrast to this, 
it is said that, instead of one in thirty who cannot read and write, 
there is not one in one thousand of our own countrymen who cannot 
read and write, What a buKvniK" ih'S presents for the preservation 
of our liboi'li(S, wer6 our countiym.en alone entrusted with the 
guardianship of those liberties. But, by the annual influx, a vasj 
mass of foreigners who cannot read, write nor speak our languige 
are intrusted before they can do any one of these, with the con- 
trol of the libertios of our countrymen and the laws of the land. 
Not satisfied even with the limited period required by the laws as 
they are, these ignorant persons, in "anton violation of those laws, 

a3 



36 rOLlTlCAL IGNORANCE OF FORKIOERS. 

seize at the power to control us and make such base uses of ir, too, 
as \vc huvc before intimated. And there are those of our country- 
men so far lost to a sense of justice and palriolism, as to pre^s and 
aid by base artifices these ignorant creatures to clutch at t c power 
of wieldin^L'^ our rights and our laws, even long before they are per- 
mitted to do so by the laws of the land. Would to heaven there 
were few of such ; but focts show many on whom the love of coun- 
try, virtue, and a regard for the laws sit thus loosely. Such, with 
these foreigners, in the language of Mr. Van Buren, ' make our dec- 
icons a curse instead of a, blessing .''' 

Of the ignorance of the body of foreigners, alien and adopted, and 
of their abuse of the elective franchise, as '.veil as their subserviency 
to political demagogues, we will give an example or two, which, 
for a novelty, happened to be made subjects of legal inquiry. They 
a.Te taken promiscuously from numerous cas<:s among proceedings 
in New Jersey; and there are tens of thousands of such Americans 
voting at our elections. 

\V. Borhman, sworn, (examined by an interpreter.) — "Was born 
in Germany; was never naturalized; voted at the last election; 
cantsay what ticket he voted; could not read it; Ben. Jory gave it 
to him: John Frank gave his name to the judges; paid no attention 
to the ticket; hardly looked at it; Jory told him he must vote for 
gold and silver; have paid no tax. 

N. Bitchagc, sworn. — Was born in France; was never natural- 
ized; voted at the last election ; did not notice the ticket he voted; 
have voted before; Petei Snyder is my step-father; he was never 
naturalized ; he voted at the last election. 

D. Garrel,sii-orn. — Was born in Germany; was never natural- 
ized ; voted at the last election ; can't tell what lickt t he voted ; can't 
read English nor German; cnn't tell what the ticket was called ; 
did not know who he voted for; never heard of such men as Jack- 
son, or Van Buren, or Israel Stratten, or Nat. Foster; n»'ver heard 
of Gen. Harrison or Henry Clay; have heard of Gen. Washington ; 
but don't know whether he is President or not. 

iV. Hojfman, s«-or/i.— Was born in Germany ; have never been 
naturalized; voted at the last election ; don't know what ticket he 
voted; Ben. Jory gave it to him ; said it wa.s a good one; can't read 
English: did not know who lie was voting for; did not know 
that there were two parties, nor what the election was held for; 
have voted before; know Briell, he was not born in this country; 
nevrr was naturalized. 

11. Vodcdin^, sworn. — Was born in Germany; came to this 
country three years ago; voted the ditnucratUckQl: Frank gave it 
to him; can't read English; don't know who he voted for; didn't 
know who the candidates were; had voted before; never owned 
any iiouse or land; was never naturalized. 

Prtcr Snyder, sworn. — Was born in France ; (!) voted at the last 
election; was never naturalized; don't know what names he voted 



POLITICAL IGNORANCE OF FOREIGNERS. 37 

for; F.ank gave him the ticket, and he voted it; supposed it was 
a gold and silver ticket, (!) but don't know ; was boin where gold 
and silver was; ho voted lor aristocrat; it was some kind oi crat, 
don't know what kind ; guess it was same kind rest of men voted 
for; have voted before ; Laughner is a German. 

Pe!erSc/if-tter, called. — Voted at courthouse election; all hands 
who had been there a year, voted ; thought ihey all had a right to 
vote. 

J. Murdoch, SIC orn. — Was born in Ireland; was never natural- 
ized; hiis lived in .Mellville s'mco nine da?/s ; {\) voted at the last 
elfc-tion; voted diinociai-ticket; voted a year ago; some body 
asked it' I was entitled to vote, and they said 1 was, and that's all 
about it. 

L. Becker, sworn. — Was born in Germany: came to the U. S, 
one year and ten months ago ; have never been naturalized ; voted 
at the last election: cannot read English; don't know who were 
candidates at the election; Jory told him the ticket was democrat 
tickit; have voted before. 

C. Voisard, sworn — (an interpreter being called.) — He said, " I 
can talk for m- sef, but me cant talk for nobody !" (By interpreter.) 
— Was born in France; has never been naturalized; voted at last 
election; don't know the names or the persons he voted for; can't 
read English ; John Frank gave him ticket, and said it was for 
Jackson. 

Peter Barrant, sworn. — Was born in France; came to the U. S. 
eighteen months ago ; has never been naturalized, but would like to 
have one ;(!) have voted three or four times before; always voted 
democrat ticket ; was never asked to vote any other. (!) 

Only about one-fourth of the Irish can read or write, and not one 
in twenty who can, come to this country. Those who do read and 
write are chiefly protestants, and those coming here are mostly pa- 
pists; so that nearly-ixW we receive from Ireland are unable to read or 
write, and, not only so, but they are shockingly ignorant of our lan- 
guage and of almost every thing else. In addition to this they are 
creatures of passirn and prejudice. The folly and evil, therefore, of 
intrusting our rights and freedom to such persons, must be apparent 
to all. As a religious sect, too, they are bound soul and body to 
foreign priests, who are the appointed and sworn agents of a foreign, 
political and spiritual tyrant, claiming jurisdiction in this countr3% 
but ytt who, publicly, curses our institutions and our people. — 
How then can any rational man believe that they can safely or 
understandingly exercise the elective franchise, the most elevated 
and valuable right known to an American? And yet a Scotch pa- 
pist and alien, having unfortunately a public paper at his command, 
in this city, says, '' the Irish are the most intelligent, the most indus- 
irious, and the most valuable ofciti:e:is .'" How much did the hire- 
ling got for this insult and lie? 

It is well known, too, that the mass of the Germans coming to 



.^ I'OLlTtCAL IGNOUANCE OF F0KEIGKER8. 

this country are equally as ifrnorant as the Irisli. They cannot 
even speak our language: and though in this respect liitle Itss 
qtialilitd than the Irisli to exercise our elective franchise, yet they 
are less turbulent nnil piissionatc. They, too, cm neither read nor 
write, and a niajority oi'them are the victims of a faith, diametrically 
opposed to our /roe institutions, and are also bound to those who are 
the sworn enemies of our country. Probably not one in one hun- 
dred of those coming to this country in such vast numbers is able to 
read or write. These and the Irish constitute the gr< at bulk of 
immigrants so rapidly filli.Tg up the country. We need not parti- 
cularis'.^ those of other countries, making up the great mass, for all, 
with few exceptions, have the same prejudices, and are foreigners in 
feeling and habits. With what reason or consistency, then, are 
these masses permitted to control ourselves and country; since it is 
plain they do not and cannot understand either. We fieely admit 
there are a few worthy of exception; men who are not only well 
read, but who have the sense to abstain from interfering with our 
politics and laws. Two examples have been mentioned to us ; in 
one of which the person had been fifty and the other forty years in 
this country, without being naturalized. As Ave have said, very few 
Americans arc incapable of reading and writing. Of those who 
do not read and write, it is estimated that not one in tircnly are native 
citizens. The following facts on this subject, which w'o have ar- 
rang(.'d according to and in juxtaposition with the population of the 
States, exhibit in a tabular furn), the total of our free population, and 
the probable number of foreigners, over 20 years of age, who cannot 
read nor write. 

Population. Do nol read nor torile. 
Maine, - - - - r)0 1,793 3,241 - 

Massachusetts,- - 737,099 4.448 - 

Rhode Island, - - 108,830 1,G14 - 

Connecticut, - - 309,978 526 - 

Vermont, - - - 291,948 2,270 - 

New York, - - 2,428,921 44,452 - 

New Hampshire, - 284,574 , 942 

New Jersey, - - 373,306 0,385 - 

Pennsylvania, - - 1,724,033 33,940 • 

Delaware, - • - 78,085 . 4,832 - 

Maryland, - - - 470.019 11,817 - 

Virginia, - - - 1,239,797 58.732 - 

North Carolina, - 753,419 56,009 - 

South Carolina, - 594,398 20,015 - 

Georgia. - • - 091,392 30,717 - 

Alabama, - - - 590,756 22,592 - 

Mississippi, - - 375,051 8,3()0 - 

Louisiana, - - - 352,411 4,801 • 

Ohio, - .. . . l,r, 19,407 35.394 - 

Tennessee, - • • tM9,210 58,531 • 



being 


one in 


154 


" 




104 


«' 




06 
574 
128 

55 
307 






55 
49 
12 


:. 




27 
12 


11 




9 
12 
13 
15 
21 


" 




52 
42 
11 







Population. 


Do not real 


nor -write. 


Kentuclcy, - 


- 


- 779.828 


40,018 - 


'• 


Indiana, - - 


- 


- 085,866 


38,100 - 


•4 


Illinois, - - 


- 


- 476,183 


27,502 - 


l( 


Michigan, - 


- 


- 212,267 


2,173 - 


'• 


Missouri, - 


- 


- 383,702 


19,457 - 


<( 


Arkansas, - 


- 


- 97,574 


0,567 - 


U 


Florida, - 


- 


- 54,477 


1,303 - 


It 


Wisconsin, • 


- 


- 30.945 


1,701 - 


t« 


Iowa, - - 


- 


- 43.112 


1,118 - 


«i 


District of Co 


lumbia, 43,712 


1,033 - 


u 



rOLITICAL IGKORANCK OF rOREIonKES. M 



13 

18 
17 
97 
17 
12 
41 
18 
38 
42 

Total, 17,063,353 549.850 

On boaid vessels ) « inf> 

ofUnitedStatLS, ^ ^'^"^ 

17,069,453 

Calculating one in twenty of the above number to be native Am- 
ericans, we have 27,492 who cannot rfad nor write; and of this 
number the greater part are probably blacks. For the Eastern and 
Middle States, this shows a grand result. Compare this with pre- 
ceding facts as to the state of ignorance in England, Ireland and 
other countries, and those from these countries among us and now 
claiming control over us — being 522,358 in number; beside the 
750,000 who have arrived here since the last census, and the great 
numbers who deceived the census-takers as to their ability to read 
and write. As an example of the ignorance of the Canadians pour- 
ing into our cities and towns and settling on our fine western lands, 
on a petition sent to the Canadian government, signed by 88,000 
persons, there were but 10,000 wlio could write their own names! 
We need not add a word in addition to what we have said, to show 
the incapability of foreigners to make and administer our lavvs, or 
our just detestation of their arrogant assumptions. 

Believe us, countrymen, a crisis has indeed arrived whenwe must 
act; v.'hrn the overwhelming influence of foreigners; their igno- 
rance; their bold dictation, insolence and violence, must and will 
arouse every American to the defence of his dearest interests. We 
know full well that in a short time this will be a common cause 
with our countrymen. They cannot longer resist the force of truth 
and the impulses of patriotism. Foreigners have long since raised 
their standard and beat to arms. In almost every town, city, county 
andstate, they have raised their flag and rallied distinctively under it. 
They have now rallied as a body on the subject of the Presidency, 
and dar:na:ly questioned both American candidates for that ofRco 
as to their opinions on the subject of an amendment of the natural- 
ization laws. This they have done as a distinct body, as foreigners, 
and as a nation of foreigners. Here they have stepped out oa 
great national questions, singly and alone, and arrayed themselves 



40 :«ATUHAtIZATION AMD FRAUDS OF FOREIONEnS. 

against the great body of native citizens, and on a question, too, 
which cannot possibly interest themselves, except as Americans, 
but which, by possibility only can gratify the blind and selfish 
passions of their coiimrynien now in a foreign land. If they knew 
any thing of this question, and of its cflects, they would know 
that it cannot deprive them of any rights or privileges ; but, on 
the contrary, must necessarily benefit them and their children in 
cummon with native Americans, and their children. But they 
would seem, through ignorance and porverseness, to know nothing 
of the nature or cirects of that question; and, what is still worse, 
they clearly show that they regard the wishes and supposed inte- 
rests of their alien countrymen, who have not and never may 
step foot on our soil, as paramount to the wishes and the great 
and enduring interests of our countrymen. Now, what can more 
clearly demonstrate their ignorance, their selfishness, and their 
undying attachment to foreigners, and to aliens yet unborn: or 
Avhat more forcibly prove their natural hostility and deter- 
mined opposition to us as Americans, and to our free institu- 
tions ? There is no disguising these thing.s. Every man must 
see their truth and the certainty of a general issue. This issue, 
then, mnst come; and let it come ! We cannot avoid or defer 
it ; come it will and that most speedily. 

What do the mass of foreigners know, what can they know of 
the polit cal, civil or religious history of our country. It is a sealed 
book to them, and they are as ignorant of its contents as an infant. 
They cannot read it if they would, and they are not disposed to 
read it if they could. They cannot read any book^ any history, 
any thing. IIow then can they know any thing of the cost or cha- 
racter ofour institutions. IIow can they know or feci their worth, 
their spirit, and their tendency. What do they, or what can they 
know of the achievements, the wisdom, the sacrifices of our fa- 
thers, or the nature ofour laws and government. And, knowing 
nothing, what can they feel in common with Americans on these 
subjects ? Do wc deem it useful and necessary for an American 
youth to read, write and understand these things, and is it not as 
useful and necessary for the foreigner who controls our laws and 
government as for the American youth who is allowed no such 
power or privilege ? Nay, but the bulk of foreigners now crowd- 
ing among us cannot speak our hinf>;vas;e ; and these, with those 
who cannot read or write it, coii|)le(l with tho.sc few who can, but 
who care not a straw for what it reveals of our liistory or of our 
institutions, constitute ntnilcen-lwentidlis of our foreign popula- 
tion ! Besides all this, they come with and forever retain, all their 
pernicious foreign prf^judiccs, which, a.s we see, arc .stronger than 
our laws, our interest i and our goverumeui— prejudices which cling 
to th«!tn through lill', and which constantly manifest themselves 
in all their acts. Docs any one believe that the intercourse whiclr 



NATVRAMZATION AND FRAUDS OF FOREIQNERS. 41 

necessity compels them to have with our countrymen, eradicates 
these prejudices, and imbues their minds with intelligence, patri- 
otism and virtue ] Does any one see this ; and is he silly enou"h 
to suppose that it ever did or ever will happen ? No ; they them- 
selves studiously oppose as much as possible all such intercourse 
and all such resulis, even if they were possible, by banding toore- 
ther in every possible nuumcr, openly and secretly. They loill 
not become Jlmerlcnri, then, if they could ; they will not under- 
stand our institutions, nor cultivate a feeling in common with us 
— Iheyivill be foreigners^ and yet they will control us and our laws. 



NATURALIZATION AND FRAUDS OP FOREIGNERS. 

The iTiode, forms and frauds of our courts of naturalization, and of 
the paitizaiia inlroduccd in the process ot nattiralizitinn, are so well 
known to onr countrymen, that we can scarcely think exainjjles calcu- 
lated to give mucii interest to ti.e subjec( ; yet a few will he cited to 
show what lakes place at almost every election, both in our Atlantic 
cities and country towns. They will he introduced without regard to 
order, and as xminientionally leaking out from lime to time; for the 
great mass of these fraiuls are studiously withheld from the eyes of the 
honest portion of our cilizens. Native citizens, reckless pariy men — 
and with shame we say it — irianage these ignorant and not less reck- 
less forei^riiers, at the elections, in ;i manner so disgustinpf to moral and 
patriotic Americans, as that their acts call out trumpet-tongued for 
redress and punisfiment. We have not space to introduce details of 
the practices at our Courts in this city, though we have /qc/s enough 
before us to startle any good citizen ! 

It is common to notice standing advertisements paraded conspicuous 
in the public papers for a few weeks prior to the elections in this city, 
as (bliows: "Those desiring to become American citizens are invi- 
ted to call on the Democratic Republican Naturalization Commit- 
tee o( the ward in wliich ihey reside, or on the General Naturaliza- 
tion Committee of the party at Tammany Hall!" It then gives 
deceptive poriiuns of the laws, as an inducement for fcreigners to call. 
Thus are they provided here with eighteen Nnturaliziuion Commit- 
tees ! A printed card, in order to faciliiate the business of ilie Com- 
mittees and the Courls, is transmitted with each alien candidate for 
beintT made a '' belter American," and it reads thus — "'J'he Court 

OF CoMM iN Pleas — Will please nnturolizc — j — oj ward. By 

order of the Committee ! N. y.,'' D;ite, &c. What thirds you of this, 
boncsi, mor:il and intelligent Americans? — By order of a political 
Coinmittei- ! ! 

Hundreds and tiiousnnds, as the result of this and the arts of "run- 
ners," or "vote linnters" flock to tliese Committees, or are brought 
more stealtliily to the C uris, and sworn through the forms wiiiirhe 
greatest hasio and indifPercnc' ; such as no one can well imagine who 
has not wilnesscd ihem. Tiie wiling — nay, enthusiastic candidates 
for the honors of citizenship, are marched from these comniillocs by 



43 WATDRALIZATION AND FRAUDS OF FOREIONEHS. 

parlizms seKcted fur the purpose, and Hirceil ihrouirli tlie ccremonios 
by ill.' wliolusale. The "liard swenriny" in uiiiniclligible lan<riio<rc, 
llie arts and strange "evidciici s" iliere cxliiliiied, can belUr be imagin- 
ed tiidii desciibed. The fees arc eiliier t'ortlicomintr fniiii parly lead- 
ers, coinmiitces, or the pany ; or scores vi' reckoning' are kept wliicii 
are nol les^ curious liian sliamelu!. Tlicee scores are snrnelinics " long 
drawn »)ul," anioiinting in one casp, we are told, to $300, and u liicli at 
one time uas offered for $50, aiid went bcii^iing allhit. A similar 
one was run up, we nndersiand, in Brooklyn by 'lie "Naturaliz ninn 
Coniniittees," and it was ailerwaids hawked aboui for sali', and was in 
lliis way found out. Thus ilirre is iinicli dirty woik in ihls natural i- 
zaiinii business, besides ilie violation of law. 

/7i:e thousand and four hundred roreif^ners have been naturalized 
in ill is ciiy in one year, and one thousand in three days ! 

The ciiciiniNtaiice wiiicli has jist irans|)ireil, by the decision of iho 
New York Supreme Court — ihat tiie Murine Court of this city is not 
a Court of Record, will dis-franchise (if the m jority naiuralized in 
that Court were entitled to naturaliz ition papers) smne 40.000 fortijrn- 
ers, besides affL'ciinj^ ilie lilies to a vast amount of real estate. For 
Ihirly years, says one of its Judges, no lo^s ilian 2.000 foreigners have 
been naturalized annually in this city, or GO, 000 in the whole, two-thirds 
of whom, probably, have been naturalized in ihat Court. The final 
issue of tills subject, however, awails the decision of the Court of 
Errors. 

At the I'olls similar frauds and artifices are adopted, bothliy newly, 
fledired Americans and \]hi\t party friends; and, during ihe eleclions 
a wholesale business is carried on all over ihe ciiy; and it isevcn ex- 
tended to neighlioring cities and towns. Large numbers are brought 
in, housed and "cared for," during the time; they are then parceled 
out for voting in diflorent wards, and agents aro placd to conduct 
them tbiilier and secure iheir votes. Our Prisons and our Almshouses 
are emptied fir this piirposo, and srpiads aie tirouizhl from neighboring 
public works. A person told us that he had housed sixty of these at 
one time, which had been brou|x!it fiom Slaten Island ; Imnilreds have 
been brought, too, from Philadelphia and towns in New Jersey. The 
Times, speaking of the many politic il frauds in this City, said, some 
time since, ■' the administration jiarly in this Ciiy erected in the public 
street a slianly aboul sixty feci long^ and covered the pave i ent with 
Etr.uv, and every nighl durinc; the election filled it with foreigners, 
who in ihe mon.ing marchid oiU to the polls, and rinder advice, 
swore a residence acquired by a nighl^s lodging under the straiP 
in the shanty, in the street T^ One has boasted that he would vole 
in every ward in ihiisCity; another boasted that be had voted in 
three, another in /our, and still another in sevcnl One was r* cog- 
nized, however, and indicted for perjury, but he got clear of course, by 
the partizana inicrestcd in bi-i voles. One boasted that he had l>efi» 
offered, and had accepted, !?'i0 for changing his politic-'^, or opinions, 
and for electioiieriing durimr llie I'leclion; but those who know any 
thing of paily movements in this City, kiiov/ these things to bo veiy 
common afTairs. Duriii'j elections, it is not uncommon to bear and aee 
Biicb n« the following " Scene in an Eating Jlouse.^^ as described by 
th" Kxpre.ss, "Tlio cillir wns full of Girinans, Poles and oihera — 
"Dam de Viiys" — "Dam de Native Americans!^^ " Hurrah for dc 
Equal Rights!" "Hurrah for de Liberty and de Indepence," — "Hur- 



KATURALfZATION AND IRADDS OP P0REIGNKH3. 43 

rah for Giiieral Sliackaliiiit" — "I fijhtdc liberty in Polan','' — "I amde 
Mfltf/Tt* K'>^<silIsk^'' — "F.inces Wnglil, M.idiiriic DuiiisiiKtnl, ish near 
niiuo hoan', — ••D.ini de Siirntli.'iiieiis" — '' 1 am no Slicnili'iuunh" — "I 
am ill! p opissi' man" — ''Givo tii • sonv' puiicli, voman.'' 

" Have yon beon nalunilizod ?" iiiquiri'd a cbiillciiijer of a forcigiicr 
nolIoniT si:icf, " Yis." " Whiro were you naliiralizcd ?'' '* In Wun- 
ireiil." — I Clftav. Gaz.] An Irislimm presuming his vote in ihe 12 li 
ward, was asked \vln:n lie pri'seiiteil his papers? This was all Greek 
— be did not understand. '' Was you liere durinip tlie cliolera ?" "And 
is ii Icalcrow vou'.i bj iift,i»r kno veil, man?" "Ves, tbe cholera." 
"Otdi ! I did'ut saw him, sir." ''Tiie sickness, I mean." "Och, and 
its ail you tniine, I never seen it." True lie was bul two years iu 
Ainirrika! His '• advisers" said tiiere was some mistake! 

In reference to framls committed at our elections by foreigners, it 
^rils esiimaled some time since m a public print, that the number of 
iile<Tal v.ites polled at one election w 15, 2,000 in New Jersey ; 10,000 
in Peiinsvlvania ; 5,000 in Illinois; 3 000 in I idiana and Michi;[j;an ; 
2,000 in Ohio; 2,000 in Maine, and 25 000 in New York. Thus we 
Jiave a floating, scatiered toreiirn political capital of about 50,000 
votes, against the Republican institutions of thi;; country !" The ex- 
amples of frauds at thit election were rev^oliin;!, as they are indeed at 
every election, but use has made the abuse less remirkable. In a smalt 
town. South Amboy, twenty aliens have voted, and others have voted in 
numerous places on their "declaration papers," thiriy of which v\ere 
in one town. In some cases foreign paupers went to other towns and 
voted. " Af er the eleeiion," said a paper ''large numbers were trans- 
ported to N. J. to aid the free ciiizjus there in electing their officers. 
So gr.'at was tiie withdrawal, we are informed, that the work on the 
Rail Road is nearly su'^pended !" It is no less true than curious that 
before and afler such elections, a greai parade is made atlbe meetings, 
called by ihe "ailopied citizens." of their haviuir, as ihey s\y,^^ breast- 
ed the storms of many polilical cainpai^}}s, shoulder to slioxdder 
in the foremost ranki, in Ike hottest of the conjlict P'' &c. — "under 
the holy banner of Democracy /" etc. Thev speak also (.f " our di;?- 
interesiedness" — "''our fideiiiy," and of ^^ American ingratitudeV* 
" the f )es of freed >m," etc 

No less to he condemned and deplored is the flocking of the worst 
kinds of criminals to our countrv. Nor is it less remarkable that 
8>varms of iliese are sent here by f)reign urovernmenls ! New York is 
a pn'/ininenl point at wliicli these felons of the worst grade land. The 
present Recorder of (hisi city, sava: "The cities of Paris and London, 
hive now a well oro-aniz'd oolice f)rce, nnd the effect of that is to 
deluge the commercial emporium of our country with the foreign 
vagabonds, ^vhose onnralinns arc rendered futile abroad; nnd they 
make this country the great depot and the theatre of their exten- 
sive operations ! They arrive here in droves by every packet, fill 
our streets ; and will compel us to take some measures to stem the 
fearful increase of crime which is Inou'jhl upon us." 

It miy be well known that three-fourths of the adult white crinv- 
inals brought b'fore our Police Courts arc foreigners f Many ot 
these, of cour-!<% are well train- d in the arts of villainy, having learn- 
ed and long practiceil them in schools of crime abroad. All the vigi- 
lene.e of our public officers is inadequate to the increase of crime thus 
induced by refugees from Europe. It is a melanchoUy reflection that, 



4A •tATURALIZATIO.V AM) TBXVDS OF FOREIONERS. 

besides their eftects upon the morals of our citizens, we are thus over 
burUitned with liie expenses of their arrest, conviction and punish- 
ment; and all this without prospects of relief; on the contrary, with a 
certainly of their rapid increase. The f.iult is now more our own than 
that of foreign aovernments ; for, seein<^ the evil and the policy which 
induces it, we btCDinc ridiculous and impotent in the eyes of the world 
by not instilutinjr means lo prevent it. It has been v/ell s::'n] by a 
writer in the interior of our country : "If crimes multiply in the ratio 
of the increase of our population from extraneous causes, — as is too 
plainly shown, — it will ho the rule of policy, for self-defence, the pro- 
tection o( our live?, ai;il the security of our morals, that we should, 
at once, repress this curse from the shores of'Europe, while it is in our 
power to apply the remedy!"** "We micrhlfill columns upon columns 
of our paper, week after week, with murders aud other henious deeds, 
committed by reckless outcasts and intruders from foreign lands'. 
This is but a common Gontiment with the moral and American portion 
of the press throughout the country. But rarel}' do we hear any thing 
said on this subject by the foreign portion of our public papers. The 
party press is so much involved in political warfare, that it has little 
time, and less inclination perhaps, to allude to this great and growing 
evil. Politicians do not hesitate, in fact, to engage some of the worst 
of those refugees and desperadoes in their cause. Such are a major- 
ity of those employed to hunt up and swear through aliens at our 
courts of naturalization. Criminals are even let out of prison for this 
purpose. It was represented to a political officer not long since, that 
it was necessary for the party that a certain criminal, confined in the 
penitentiary, should be liberated, as he could influence an hundred 
coles, of his countrymen at the election ; the criminal was accordingly 
liberated! We have seen, by evidences before our Courts, that large 
numbers have been let loose by our city authorities, just prior to our 
elections, and despatched in squads to vote at difl'erent polls in this 
city! Nay, this is said to be a common practice ; but it is hu>hed up 
with innumerable other frauds, by political management. The par- 
ticular case alluded to, is said to hsve been compromised, in consider- 
ation of other frauds not less agravatcd, and committed by the other 
party. Indeed, exposures of these thing.", when made, are made more 
for political effect than to redress wrongs, or relbrni public abuses. 
Cases of this kind, f ilse swearing, repeated voting, and the other spe- 
cies of political frauds and violations of law in this city by foreigners, 
are without number; and all lend to kIiow the corruption of p(.!itical 
parties, the necr:i?ity of reform, and of a Registration Law. This law- 
was first a piimary object of the Americin part)', years a<io, and it was 
at Icn.Tth established in this city by their elTorls. There is no worse 
theft or robbery than such practices; and yet they are winked at by 
public nntliorilics, and by the public presses, and arc |)ermitte(i to go 
tinwhipt of jiistico. By thorfo "frauils," or more justly crimes, the 
result of nncKclion, involving the interests of huhiireds of thousands, 
and millions of nidncy, is entirely chanired ; yet they are regarded as 
of little iiriportancc, — while he who steals a loaf of bread, or a pair of 
shoes, is punished with the utmost rigor of the law. 

The cases of bait at our Courts, and the exninplcs of " hard swear- 
ing " for their countrymen, afl'ord extrnordinnry evidences of the 
character and feelings of l()rcigners. It has been a rcirular business 
•with some, thus lo accoram()daic their countrymen, and those only, in 



HATUHALIZATION AND FRACD3 OF F0RKIGNEB3. 45 

this way. We have facts before us on this point, equally expressive of 
the arls of foniijncrs to esciipe jnsiice, and of ihe n-jcecsity of reform. 
One of these w.u called hy his countrymen, " bail general." Ho was 
a hod carrier 6?/ profession, but bci;ig furnished wiih ;i broaiiclolh 
suit, ho officiated in ilie above capacity at the Police Court. This was 
"straw bail" with a veuifeance ! Americans can ^et no such standing 
accoiniuoda lions, no such stufled automata, for their convenience — and 
we hoi)c they never may. The instances of foreign criminals, and 
bigamists palming themselves off b)' their assurance upon our country- 
men and wedding those of our moat respectable fanr.iliee, when they 
liavc wives and children at Jiome, or have fled from thence to escape 
juslico, are Loo common to pass unnoticed. How many of our citizens 
liave been made wreicliod for life in this manner. Great nun^bers, we 
see, have not only ruined one, but several fauiiliea, before their charac- 
ter lias been discovered. Why is it that Americans are thus so often 
imp:)sed upon and ruined by these brazen laced adventunirs from 
abroad ? It is lo be hoped that' they will learn caution. An example in 
point, was a weaver from a manufacturing tov/n in England, who, after 
selling liis loom, etc., which he worked in a cellar, " rigjrcd up," and had 
bart ly means to " get out" to this country. By extraordinary art this 
fellow was introduced into a wealthy family, and at length won the 
hand ol a loved daughter. On the evening of marriage an invited 
f^aeift i\l the gra7id ceremonie, while the scoundrel was strutting up 
and d)\\n the parlor, recognized him ar.d his ^'family connections" 
"at home." Tjie scene wluch followed may better be imagined than 
described. Runaway husbands from Leeds, England, are so numerous 
that the authorities there have offered a reward for their apprehension. 

'I'he governments of Europe liave acted upon the principle that, 
•when they can rid their districts of paupers and criminals by trans- 
portation, they never devise means to make them earn their bread. 
But we have b<'en (breed by shere necessity, and at vast pains and ex- 
pense, to provide those means for them; and our Almshouses and S».ate 
Prisons attest the necessity tliey have thus, shamelessly and wantonly, 
imposed upon us. As with their paupers, so with their criininals, both 
have crowded our Prisons and Almshouses in equal proportions. Their 
cliief and most adr.)it burglars — their mtirderers and villains of the 
deepest dye — we have been compelled, after suffering nil their wrongs, 
to Convict and support. We are told by our city authorities that three- 
fourths of the white convicts on Blicli'well's Island are foreigners, and 
that about iico-ihirJs of those at Sing Sing are of thr^ same origin: 
93 000 pe.'sons have been cornmittcd in one year in Great Britain, 
and by one Magistrate! Here is a fruitful source of our crim- 
inals! Even their Slate prisonerM are transported to our Atlantic ciiies ; 
and we have tiiera now m this City, mingling with our citizens ; our 
eyes are daily upon thom in our si reels. 

Not ctmtent with shipping ihem clandestinely, they open their pris- 
ons in the interior, marcli them to their sea-p-rts, and ship them off 
upon us. 



46 ACCUSATIONS OF FOnEIGNERB. 

ACCUSATIONS OF POLITICIANS AND FOREIGNERS. 

Some crude and hasty observers, and generally violent and illib- 
eral politicians, have accused the (riends of American I^eiublican 
principles ol' ittiberality and prosciipiion. It is a common remark 
that those characterized for some predun:inant fault, generally sus- 
pect and accuse oihers of the same thing. Hence liiose criiieal in 
these matters judge of the prevailing weakness ol" men by ilieir 
readiness to accuse others of particular faults. It will be found to 
hold true in this instance that those; accu>ing American Republi- 
cans of illiberality or prejudice, are themselves exircnjcly selfish, 
illiberal, ignorant or vicious. They are generally strong party men 
who rudely question the motives of those differing in opinion from 
themselves. They betray an overweaning desire to secure the 
votes of foreigners for their party dogmas and leaders, and are found 
anticipating some personal advantages from their party zeal and 
prejudices. 

If to love country more than party, if to desire the purity and 
permanency of our institutions more than the interests of indivi- 
duals, and if to exert reasonable eflbrts to stay the progress of moral 
and political evils be more commendable than to scramble for places 
or quarrel about distinctions raised by politicians, then American 
Republicans may be accused of illiberality ; but not otherwise. 
They are indeed prepossessed in favor of their own country and the 
preservation of its institutions ; and they are prejudiced, Avithal — if 
anti-Americans like the term — against the enemies of their country, 
or those who would sacrifice justice and the laws to selfish, party 
or foreign interests. Now, are Americans right or wrong in thus 
preferring the paramount interests of their country, and in opposing 
those who, knowing little and caring les.s for those interests, blindly 
and pertinaciously seek to warp them by foreign influence, and 
render them subservient to their own wilful and anti-American pre- 
judices? What candid, patriotic and intelligent American thinks 
so? Who that feels a spark of the love of country, or believes him- 
self actuated by honorable motives, can for a tnonjent question thn 
objects or oppose the efforts of American Republicans in reforming 
public abuses and insliiuiing such laws as shall restrain the undue 
exercise of foreign power in our midst and the violation of the 
laws ? Surely none. 

American Republicans are accused by some, (oo, of being prescrip- 
tive. This also comes from those who are shamelessly proscriplive 
with their own countrymen in matters of party. Would they, as 
party men. elect or place in oflices of power, profit or responsibility 
any one of their native citizens who did not believe and act as they 
do in political matters? Most assuredly not; and yet these men 
are the first t > accuse others of proscription. Their political op- 
ponents may he as virtuous, as inielligeiit and as true lo the inte- 
rests of the couMiry as themselves — and their own native country- 
men withal, who caiinol be justly suspected of treason lo their 
country oi o( stratajrcm and spoils any more than themselves. 
Still, they would insiaiilly remove all sncli men fiom ofTices of trust 
and iiuthoriiy, and forever prohibit thotn from making and adminis- 
tering our laws; aye, and from voting if they could or dared. 
Their t-yslim of prtscri{)iion is bitter, relentless and lasting, and 



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ACCD8ATI0N6 OF TOLITICIAWB AKD FOnEIONERS. 47 

that, too, against their own cojtvlnjmcn, and " for opinion's sake" 
only ! Nol so with American Itepublicans. 'I'luy would pievtnt 
the act* oi' Jureigncrs while in power and cslaljlibli salutary laws 
by which other loreigutrs not in the cuuntry may be prevented by 
iheir voles frotn doing acts whijh will destroy the country, by igno- 
rance, prejudice, treason, rioi or bloodshed. Wow, who aie most 
proscriptive ? Who are the most reasonable, and who the most pa- 
triotic 'I 

An American need fear no treason in his own countrymen ; — 
he does not fear it. JNo; but ho persecutes and proscribes them for 
mere matters of political opinion, and on subjects too of little or no 
importance; and those subjects always 4/;(r//cfi?2. Very far from 
this are the acts and purposes of American Uepublicans. Parly 
men, who thus wrongly and rashly proscribe their own intelligent 
and virtuous countrymen /or their opinions, accuse native Ameri- 
cans of proscription, because they, forsooth, would protect the rights 
and interests of all their countrymen, oi' all parties, against the ig- 
norance, the prejudices and the treason of foreigners ! Away 
with such accusations I 'I'hey are as ialse as they are anti-Ameri- 
can, and as illiberal as they are unjust. 

But this, fellow-citizens, is the effect of party spirit; the natural 
offspring of illiberality and foreign influence " begotten in sin and 
conceived in iniquity." Strange indeed is it that its parents are 
thus unnatural, the one foreign and the other native, yet neither 
American. Talk of illiberality, under such circumstances! Pro- 
fessed Americans should be ashamed of it. Are our country- 
men to be deterred from the discharge of their highest duiies by 
this interested cry of illiberality or proscription ? We trust not. 
We believe there is too much intelligence, too much patriotism, too 
much honesty for the majority ol them to be thus deceived or 
frightened. The cry is raised by foreigners and echoed by inte- 
rested partizans. Let ihem continue it ; we know their objects ; and 
knowing them, we dare oppose them. They may deceive some, as 
intended, but no intelligent patriot. 

American Republicans are indeed illiberal if the love of country 
he paramount to the love of self and of party; if a desiie to pre- 
serve and perpetuate our institutions be greater than that of place 
and profit ; if permanent national interests are to give place to tem- 
porary, personal or party interests. They are proscriptive withal; 
if to be so is to stay the progressive evils of foreign influence, and 
to take from the enemies of our common country the jiower to de- 
stroy its inst'tutions. But is this iiliberality ? ?s it proscription? 
If so, then there is reason in the accusation, though ilure is none 
in the accusers ; for, as wo have said, they proscribe their own 
countrymen for their opinions. What! illiberal, becaui^e we are 
not indiQ'erent to the acts of foreigners; becnus-e we would not ex- 
cite them to new exhibitions of arrcgance and new assumptions of 
power — because we would check the growth of misrule and crime — 
because we would build up a wall of safety aiound our heiitoge, 
and guard the portals to our teuiple of freedom ! Let it be so ; we 
have an approving conscience and an approving God ! We have 
the approving smiles of the spirits ol our I'athtrs ; we have the sngc 
precepts of our greatest and best men ; we have ilie living pinudits 
of every patriot, and we shall have the gratitude of all posterity. 



48 I ACCUSATIONS OF POLlTICIANa AiiD FOREIGNEnS. 

What prescriptive? because we would not throw our cherished 
rights into the streets to be trampled under foot— because the pearl 
of our inheritance is not cast before swine that they may turn and 
rend us — because we will insist that nun sliall know the value 
oi" gifts before they are bestowed upon them, and because we 
will that foreigners shall ask for those gifts and know for what 
they ask before they are thrust upon them — because we will not 
consent to become the slave of slaves, and tamely bow our necks to 
the minions of foreign and ecclesiastical tyranny! Is this pro- 
scriptions—out on such mockery! We know, thank heaven ! the 
meaning of words and of acts. V^e know the cost of our free- 
dom, and we prize it; We know the riches of our birthright, and 
wc cherish them; We know the value of our rights and we dare 
defend ihem. 

But is it not the extreme of illiberality thus to impute to our 
countrymen motives and objects they neither feel nor manifest? 
Is it not proscription c/€_/acfo for parties to denounce native Ameri- 
cans for ihe love they bear their country and one another? Let pro- 
fessed Americans have done with this injustice towards their coun- 
trymen. Let them feel and act in common and as one man in the 
defence of our rights and interests, and the interests of all men. 
And let it be remembered that in doing so, we not only benefit our- 
selves and our posterity, but confer on foreigners now in our country 
and those hereafter to come among us, with all their posterity, the 
highest and the most enduring blessings ! Let us look at and 
follow the example of our fathers, who thus felt and acted as 
broliiers for the achievement of ihe privileges we enjoy, Avhich we 
confer on foreigners and which we now should and will defend. 
Let not party spirit thus divide you ; let it not excite those feelings 
of hostility and prejudice, which now so distract you, pervert your 
judgment and endanger your country. It was with these senti- 
ments. Countrymen, that the American Hepublicans of New York 
broke loose from tiie trammels of party ; and, in view of the rapid 
increase and alarming evils of foreign influence rushed to the rescue 
and gloriously triumphed. We saw the blessings of liberty and the 
purity and permanency of our institutions to be of more consecjuence 
than the party dogmas of the day, and we now caJl on every patriot 
10 rally to out American cause. 

Yes, and the enemies of American principles call us, in sup- 
posed derision, ^^ notices,'" "jVative Americans," etc., as if the 
distinction was indeed disgraceful to us; as if we should be 
ashamed of the title and character of "Native Americans T^ 
Heaven forbid! No, no; we are proud of it. Neither Foreign- 
ers, nor American demagogues and traitors will ever make us 
ashamed of our name or our glorious hetitage, though we n)ay be 
bound in chains or burned at the stake ! But, has it cosne to this, 
Americans? Once it was not so; yet, now that foreign inHucncc 
has got so strong a hold of us, wo arc ashamed of our name and of 
our character ! — ashamed of our country and of our birthright ! — 
Heavens ! what a falling off was there, my countrymen ! Our 
name is '■^American liepnhlicansy Our enemies know it; and 
none but they miscall it or misinterpret our principles. Let them 
bandf epithets; let theui traduce, let them brand our country- 



ACCUSATIONS OF POLITICIANS AND F0BE16NEK3. 49 

men!— Our hope, like that of our lalhors, is in our cause, our 
country, our God ! 

Seeing, and deeply feeling, the necessity of reform, and the esta- 
blishment of salutary laws to guard oui liberties against the inevi- 
table effects of foreign influence, as docs a very large portion of our 
native citizens, it is a painful, and truly mortifying rellection, that 
they are prevented from the accomplishment of these important meas- 
ures by the numbers of foreigners entitled to oppose them. Yes, 
measures of immediate necessity to the country are forbidden or 
prevented, by the existing numbers and strengtii of foreigners amon^ 
us ! Tlie evil complained of has acquired a force almost loo gigan- 
tic to be resisted, and our countrymen are compelled to submit to 
the power which, in its rapid tide over our land, is destined soon to 
sweep away the bulwarks of our Republic. Is not this reflection, then, 
calculated to arouse us to action '? A distinguished statesman has 
assured us that, in his opinion, this power is, and ever will be, irre- 
sistable ; that there are a sulHcient number of our own country- 
men — and with deep and lasting disgrace be it said — who are so 
ambitious and corrupt as to stimulate and direct this power for their 
selfish and political purposes ; and hence tliat, thus associated and 
directed, it is already too late to attempt reform or to enact neces- 
sarv laws ! Were there no other demonstration of the poAver and 
fatal effects of foreign influence in our country, this, we think, suffi- 
ciently startling to alarm and nerve every patriot. Is it, indeed, too 
late ? Is it true that we are already slaves ; that foreigners are al- 
ready our masters, and that any national measure they do not S])- 
•pTOve must be crushed? Ahi^t we submit, now and for ever, to 
this painful, this awful necessity ? Is there not virtue, patriotism, 
energy enough in the American people to redeem us from this fatal 
condition? Say, countrymen, must we abide this? Must we sit 
dov/n in despair, cover our f^ices and idly weep over our fallea 
greatness? God forbid ! We say again, then, with the chivalric 
Henry— and we trust that every American Patriot will heartily re- 
spond to the declaration — " I know not wiiat others may think, but, 
as for myself, give me liberty or give me death !" And, also, with, 
the patriotic Adams, at the first "declaration of our independence, 
"Do we intend to submit and consent jhat we ourselves shall 
be ground to powder, and our country and its rights trodden 
down in the dust? We never shall submit I" * * * " While I 
live, let me have a country, or at least the hope of one, and that a 
free country !" * * * " Sir, i)efore God, 1 believe the hour has 
come ! My judgment approves this measure, and my Avhole heart 
is in it. All that I hare, all that I am, and all that I hope in this 
life. I am now ready here to stake upon it. Simk or swim, live or 
die, survive or perish, I am for the declaration ! It is my living 
sentiment; and, by the blessng of God, it shall be my dying senti- 
ment — Independence now^ and Independence for ever '."' 



60 FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS AND PREJUDICES. 



FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS AND PRIUUDICKS. 

The influence antl prejudices of foreigners are manifested the moment they 
get foot on our soil. They ' huddle together" as " birds of a feather." They 
avoid and keep aloof from Americans, and literally pronounce a curse of ex- 
communication upon them. They join few or none of our associations, except 
■where some special advanla<(e is to be gained, and exclude us from their own. 
This they do as much from their own prejudice?, national, political, and reli- 
gious, as from the mandates of their priests. All this is seen daily ; and some 
very interesting examples are shown by the priests and the people, and that 
too, under the interdiction of pains and penalties, spiritual and temporal. The 
case of Alderman Patrick O'Neil, who, as the papers stated at the time, was 
denied the Sacrament and absolution on his death-bed, unless he renounced his 
connection with the highly Benevolent American Association of '• Odd Fel- 
lows ;"' that, too, of the priestly denunciation and prohibition of the meeting of 
Bome young men in this city, to discuss the principles of the Catholic church, 
may be noticed as examples. Is this '* liberality ;" is it not "proscription ?" 
What say you ; you who make the accusation against Americans ? You who 
so eagerly hug foreigners to your bosom — not because you really love their 
" liberality," their learning, their patriotism, their love of morals, their love of 
you, or your countrv. Oh, no ! but because you lote their voles more. 

And not only do they thus band together into social clans to preserve their 
foreign nationality, their foreign prejudices, habits, languages, and purposes ; 
but they join themselves into foreis^n military bands! and then they are pre- 
pared to enforce and perpetuate their foreignism completely and effectually, to 
the exclusion of all 7iative Jlmericans, and even '" to the death !" Is this " libe- 
rality," too ; is it non-proscriptive ;" and are these the reasons why they are 
" better Americans" than native Americans ? Is this the way too (admitting, 
for the sake of the argument, that they are not, as they profess, " better Ameri 
cans,'") is this the way, we ask, to make Americans of them at all ! We ask 
for information ; but we desire an answer addressed to yourselves, your coun- 
try, your God ! How think you, countrymen 'f 

But, as it may seem to you, they profess and claim, at the same time, to be 
forriiiwrs ? They call upon th'ir countrymen as our fellow natives, '• our 
countrymen," "' our brethren," " United Irishmen," " brother Irishmen," '• brother 
Germans," " brother Catholics," &c., &c. This may be an evidence, in their 
"better" judgment, of being" better Americans," but we have yet to learn if it 
be 60. \\r'e have yet " better" to understand oitr " mother tongue" before we 
can comprehend this rt/j/)a;Tn.' anomaly. Is it ■■ proscription" or not thus to 
thut vs out, native citizens, from their associations, their military companies 
and regiments? And should this make them " better Americans" than your- 
selves and is this an example of their " liberality f" 

Again, what is the effect of all this exclusiveness, all this foreignism, on the 
minds of the children of these "belter Americans," what is the tn/ok/n/ effect? 
It is clearly and avowedly to make them also such "better Americans." They 
aie early introduced into their associations, and zealously instructed in all the 
mysteries calculated to make llK-in such Americans. One of the means to ac- 
complish this is to prevent them both by inclination, prejudice, and by the 
commands of priests, from uniting with the children of native Americans, in 
our Public Schools. There miglit be danger, indeed, as tliey shrewdly appre- 
hend, of their children beconiin;; .Imerinitis, were they to be ])ermitted to ilo so, 
and thus they rniiiht lose their title and claims to being " W/f/' Americans." 
" Let not your childn-n," saystlie Catholic Diary, " so nuich as touch a school 
book made by a Proti-stant teacher!" This is the way to make them better 
Americans, and this is llie " Civil Liberty' and tlie" lilieratity' so much talked 
about by foreij^ners ! In the Irish Rejieal and other associations, they are 
placed under the obligations, the pains and penalties imposed upon their pa- 
rents. Above all, is it tu-.-.'ssary and imperatively enjoined u)ion them, ia 
order to m.ike tliem swh better Americans, tliat they shall avoid all contact 
with" Heretical Associations,' Jcc. Now all this maybe \ o ry lihcra I in ihe 
eyea of political demagogues, and especially in those oi foreigners themselves, 



FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS AND PREJUDICES. 5t 

but wc would rather abide the decision of candid, intelligent, and patriotic 
Americans, as to whether it is so or not. Certain it is, that native Americans 
bein<? "heretics." nothing is more plain than that American Associations are 
to be avoided, as well as heretics or .\mericans intlividually. How then can 
foreigners, untler these restrictions, ever become Americans ! 

Foreigners, then, make, or rather preserve themselves as such. 'J'hoy draw 
the lines of distinction between themselves and Americans, by their social, 
political, and military associations,and thus consolidate themselves as a foreign 
community, a foreign parly. They have organized as such ; they hold their 
meetings as such, and for their own peculiar interests. Thus they arc exclu- 
sive, and they seek to become more and more so, alike in their opinions, their 
habits, and their puiposes. In doing this, too, in their Repeal meetings, they 
openly and daringly violate our international laws, and all good natioir,d faiih. 
One of their orators said at a late and large Repeal gathering, that if their ob- 
jects and meetings were uncorfstitutional, " he, for one, would renounce his 
allegiance to the Constitution." 

It is an established principle of international law, that " every nation in a 
state of peace, is bound to prevent its subjects from doing any wrong or injus-" 
tice to the subjects of other nations." 

And, again, '' Every nation is bound to abstain from all interference with the 
domains of other nations.'' How then can the American government justly 
permit Irish Repealers in this country, whether aliens or adopted citizens, — 
for aliens are also bound to obey the laws of a government within which they 
are residents, — to threaten or molest, in any way, or to provide means for the 
dismemberment of another government, with which it is on the strictest terms 
of peace and amity ? It is plainly a violation of international law, of good faith 
and common justice. The Repealers are therefore guilty of an open and wan- 
ton violation of all these principles ; and they recklessly provoke retaliation 
and war as a consequence from the British government. Nay, they daringly 
declare that they aim to provoke such a war, and they boast of their abililij to 
carry it on ! Thus they would make our countrymen think, as we see by their 
bravado at repeal meetings, that they could and would'- whip England." They 
unceasingly agitate and prejudice the public mind, for no other reason than to 
promote their'own selfish wishes, and to gratify their own feelings of hostility 
against a friendly government. A Repeal orator said not long since, '' Jmerica 
cares not how soon trar is declared. Two hundred thousand Irishmen can be 
raised in America, effective and iciWiig,"' Were they to succeed in provoking 
such a war, and in thns effecting the slaughter of tens of thousands of our 
countrymen, little, very little would be seen of them in the contest ; and we 
should be made, as they cunningly think, to act the part of the cat's paw in 
the tragedy. 

The chief object also of foreigners— and let not this be forgotten, though it is 
an example of Irish ronsintenry — in arraying themselves with England «o madly 
against tlie institutions of our southern States, is to provoke a war with Eng- 
land ; lor they perceive that that is the most sensitive spot in our whole body 
politic. In addition to this, they act wiVA England, in arraying the northern 
against the southern States ; for'by this, too, they aim to grasp still greater, 
if not transcendant powers. These things are artfully put in practice and con- 
tinued by their Jesuits in this country, and they are perfectly plain to every 
intelligent observer. Let the loud and frequent appeals of that noisy and blus- 
tering agitator, O'Connell, to his countrymen here, and priest Mathew anil 
C0,00b alien Irishmen at once, all calling on them to array themselves against 
the institutions of the southern States, and all these foreign calls being ac- 
knowledged and acted upon, too, by the Irish in the northern and eastern 
States, while they are cunningly but hypocritically denounced for effect by the 
Irish in the southern States;— we say^ let these outrageous examples of for- 
eign interference and domesiic treason, acting in concert, sulfice to show the 
character and the designs of foreigners here and abroad. Whatever may be 
thought in the abstract of any wron<rs which the Irish at home may suffer, 
— though these are magnified beyond measure, — or of slavery, it is a daring 
and insulting outrage for them, whether here or at home, in thus treasonably 



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opiwiing tat! iiislilulious of any p;irlof our countTy ; and we only wonder that 
Ann-Ticaiis at tlie south arc slill quiet in view of such insults from loreigners. 
la view of these facts there will ajipoar i^reul justice, anil especially after 
what has bueii said of Native Americans by Irish Repealers among us, in quoU 
inq a lew remarks from a New Orleans paper, on the character of these bois- 
terous Cliampions of lihrti/, though they fall far aliort of the sentiments and 
language used l>y them against Americans. We qnolo without comment or 
endorsement. Lei those wlio know, judge of the facts and conclusions. 

" We hav(.: lieard a great deal, iii times pa.st, of ilic Inaveiyof the Irish people — their wanii- 
l-.o.irto 1 .md eniiiu:~ia,3tic love of counlry — '.heir stll-sacriliciiij,' patriotism—and, uiidui- 
Ktnniilt ami liis coinpser,-;. the Irish character did actually almost rise to the dignity of a 
spirit whicli des-:reed to be tree. Uui, alas I liow miserably has it sunk since then ! What 
du we .seu 1 A ucuijIc groania5 bt'nt.-ath the tod of oppression, at length i'ou.sed lo action by 
SufTeiinjio whieu ificy can no iuii;:cr bear, and deiiiandi»3 I'roia their tyrants those right';? 
which <!od bestows upon all his crealnros who deserve lo exercise them • Do we see llie 
" down-troddeu people of Ireland" ('tis a favorite phrase with our modern maudlin iihilaii- 
t'aropists) rising up in their miglit, and with the sword ot justice in their hands, swearing 
t.iai they will be free ot die 7 No ! Uul we see a parcel of miserable and cowardly t=Uive.<, 
^oo timid and unintclleclual to vcntiue one (jrand stroke for liberty, quanellins with tlieir 
maHters at a fair, while under the Influence of'whiskey, and then turned out inio'the «ireuis 
to (lie like spiritless do^s, while their champion, the ?rcat O Connell, rides to public assem- 
bUes in his Lordship's gilded and liveried chariot, with his •' ma?^sive gold chain of olRce" 
about iiis 11 ^ck, and inakos a Itowery speech about liberty, while hi^ emissaries are travers- 
'v.\% far-oir lands begging money from door to door and iroui city to city, to supporl the poor 
victims of British oppression ! Is this the picture of a great and mighty nation struggling to 
bo free? Can yVnicricans look buck at tlieir own liistory and contemplate the deeds by 
which llicir fathers wrcnclicd their libcnios from ll>e tyrant's hand, and then recognise llicsu 
beg'iing, cowardly slaves as coiigeuial spirits'! Does Ireland expect to "ain her freedom, 
while her people are so destitute of that spirit which can alone make liberty valuable to 
them ! Or can Americans for one moment seriously believe that donations to Daniel 
P'Conncll, even .idmilting that ibey wore to be honestly applied in ihe manner he profcse.s, 
are to bestow freedom upon Ireland ! If she would indeed be free, let her show that she is 
worthy of so great a blessing. Let her cmulale the deeds of the iij-.triotic Poles, who died 
Tword in hand, bravoly contending tor liberty ; let her take example from the scattered and 
feebhi colonies of iSorth America, which dared to cope, alone and unaided, with the giant 
power id' tlieir oppressor. Kreedom is won by fighting, not hy begging! ;uid we cuimol. 
ronfinriplate the paltry elTorts of the great champions oflreland without "feeling Imniiliated 
lir he reflection that'such mocbhcroes should dare to claim the eynipathios of American 
Freemen. 

'• Tin; g.une is deeper ihpji this. The cry of '■ Irish Repeal'' is but a decoy to distract our 
atteulion from the fiMitl;';il and traitorous designs of the enemies of Amciica — nr rather of 
.Omrricans. They wish lo ]>l;iy upon our too easy syrapathies, and enrich iheinsolves at the. 
expense of onr iindiscriininating good-nature. They aim at the drutniction of our domestic 
initiluti^il.i. and, liu suj>j>! inliAg of our slave Intior by tjicir own. What if llioy deny it, hrrc — 
llioy iijieuiy imite witli llie nbolitionisi.s at the North; and the trick of denying in New 
Orir.ins tlint which made the liurd'.'ii of their public meeting at F,\neuil Hall, with \Villiam 
f.loyd Girrison fori.hairman and a fn'o negro and a ruiiiiway slave lor secretaries, is too 
f hallow 10 dupe even Hie must connuon understanding. There is 'reckon abrotui in this land : 
ti i if •"> . riiss:iri<>s and preachers do not hurry avvav, they may yet be presented witli the 
of dislincii"ii worn by the lories of the devolution. "/ 

'■vciiition"?, Societies, Cltibs and Clansof foreigners, are characterised 
l(y sotiir' ulterior object. One is intended to force upon Ihe public their polit- 
it'al intlnpnce directly, while another is designed to do this through their re- 
ligion. Ono haB some Orteusible lienevolent object, wliile anotiier allects to 
prpsorve the m"irory of soine of their national heroes, saints, or some events 
in the history of their country. But, docs a solitary body of foreigners meet 
to ppr|ielna1e our institutions, the remembrance of 6ur great men, or to keep 
alivi- the effects of events in our .American history? Not one ! No, they are 
quite too much interested in their country and thrir countryinen lo do this. 
if they had any di.spo.sition to do so, which they have not. It is saiil •' they 
have a regularly orLtmized political association in the tenth ward, of New 
York, whicli holds no roininuitiration with their fellow-citizens, and they even 
have their /iV/.v/* printed in a language which Ainevicans cannot understand, 
a^d that, with its branches in parts of the city, it numbers between ~'000 and 
fJOOO voters, for which they make their own tf>rms with political leaders.'' 
And fuither, that 'in the sixth ward, they have a well-drilled political Ro- 
man Catholic Irish association still more nunurous, and who.-e isolation 
and non-intercourse with American citizens are still more intolei-ant and 
proicriptive." 



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FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS AND PnERDKES. 56"^ 

Again, there are numerous other rissoriations, the ostcnsihie puipose of 
which we know not, except that we pee thenn rally and call their meetings 
at the elections. Among these is one they call the " Fausliintta" society, or 
hy some su<h Greek apellative. As a sample of their foreignism at all these 
meetings and celehrations, we might cite one — that ol' their " nalire saint," St. 
Patrick. The order and spirit of their toasts are of course a true test of 
their sentiments and interests. This, as usual, was as follows: — 1st, "The 
day we celebrate." '2d, " Our Native Lrtticl,'' 'M, " The Clergy of Ireland." 4th, 
'• Fatiier Mathew,'' 5th, " O'Connell," and 0th and fcist, '• Our adopted Coun- 
tiy." This is precisely the order in which we should suppose they would 
express their sentiments and the ohjects of their attachments and preference. 
Foreiirners even boast that they have " more riglits in Jlmerikey than the na- 
tives." They are indeed allowed to hand together in military companies and 
regiments, in all our cities, excluding all native Americans, giving their own 
foreign word of command, and practising their own foreign discipline ; but 
the formation of a native American company in Philadelphia laiely called 
out some would-he-thoiight Americans, unfortunately connected with the 
press, who pronounced it "monstrous!" No wonder Ibreigners say they 
have more rights than we, and that their covmtrymen say abroad in their pub- 
lic prints that their countrymen here have the control of our elections ; and 
also that we '• are more than half conquered !" They can meet also in im- 
mense Repeal gatherings, and " agitate ! agitate ! ! agitate ! ! !" And for 
what ? for .\mcrira ? for any American national measure 'f No ! for the Irish, 
and for Irish measures ! and thern only ! They can hold their innumerable 
other meetings, hang out their foreign Hags, ciy up tlieir country, and cry down 
our couiUri/, abuse native citizens and laud their countrymen, and cond.emn 
our institutions to their hearts' content, and all this is perfectly right. But 
./ZmcnVnn associations are '-monstrous;" and they are actually broken up by 
these foreigners. The time was when our associations were hooted at, and 
we held them in fear of our lives; and now, nothing but actual /ojre deters 
foreigners from doing as they have done and as tliey tvill do. Nothing but 
this prevented a murderous assault upon us in procession a few months since ! 
so their priests tell us. Think of this, countrj'rnen ! 

1 How does this foreignism, this exclusiveness and foreign attachment, affect 
all the naturalized Irish, English, &c., in this country, and especially in the event 
of a war in opposition to their own countiymen, iViends, and native land? 
Why, it would operate ns it has operated, when a militaiy company of theirs 
was called out to quell a riot and the destruction of property on a rail-road, 
not long since, and when they refused, as they came in sight, to obey orders, 
or to rriarch upon 'AciV conntnjnien, hui threatened to fire vpon Americans first !' 
That is what they would do : and that is what all foreign armed hands in our 
mid-it would do under similar circumstance's ! When an English adopted 
citizen was asked, during the late prospect of war, if he would defend our rights 
against England ; he promptly replied. No ! he could not think, he said, of fight- 
ing against his own countrymen, ami his native land. And. as did another, 
lately turned out of one of our military companies for similar declarations; 
and indeed as nine-tenths of them would say. But they can, nevertheless, 
use our elective franchise when they please ; aye, domineer over native citizens 
as they please. Think well of this, fellow-citizens ; if found fighting against 
their own country abroad too, or in any way opposing them in war, they are 
liable to be tried' eonricted and excniteil as traitors! Who among them, then, 
will jeopard their lives in fighting for their " adopted country V If they fight 
against any other country, they may also he deemed criminal in their native 
countiy. Can any certificate of naturalization take precedence of the '•laims 
of a government under which a man was horn ? He is there a natural citi- 
zen, and the laws prohibit him from being naturaUzed under another gov- 
ernment and from renouncing his allegiance. Is not the act of naturalization 
nugatory — a farce 1 

Such was the case when the " Irish Greens" of this city, who boasted so ob* 
streperously of their patriotism and valor during the last war, and asked to be 
marched to the Canadian lines, that they might be allowed an opportumty of 



54 FOREIGN ASSOCIATIONS AND PREJUDICES. 

displayinj tlieir courage in defence ofoi^rlaml; but every booby of whom da- 
serteil und tied home before they had even approached the lines, or the sight or 
sound of danger! Such, too. we are toUl, was theirexample at New Orleans, 
and other places. This arinins: of foreign bands among us, to display their 
power, llieir distinctions, and their martial appearance to wonder-stricken boys 
and blacks, is as ridiculous in themselves, as it is wrong and insulting to Ameri- 
cans. They may ride through and trample under fool Sunday-school proces- 
sions of infants, as they did in Philadelphia, or cut down Americans and their 
horses, when in their way, as they did at another time in that city, or ihey may 
shoot them down in the atreets by dozens, as lliey would so many dogs, when 
skulking behind walls, and within tlieir holes. They may threaten that they 
will defend at the point of the bayonet a lecherous alien countrywoman of theirs, 
if the New York city authorities do not inteipose their power to resent a trifling 
insult of theirs with a few American boys — they may display all these, and 
numberless other fe.\ts of military bravery we might mention, b.?fore the eyes and 
upon the heads of Americans; but as for their defence of our country and our 
institutions, their professed and boasted objects, '" it's all in the eye." They are, 
as they have shown tliemselves, ''men of straw." 

The conduct of the "Montgomery Guards." (Irish soldiers) of Boston, was 
so reckless and anti- American as to induce the people of many towns about 
Boston to petition for their l>eing disbanded. Let our citizens do likewise with 
our foreign companies and regiments. What do uc want of foreign armed sol- 
diers in our midst ? 

The 'Jlh article of the New York Gennan Horse Guards, in which commands 
are given in a foreign language, says, " No person shall be admitted into this 
company, except a German, or an American born citizen of German or Dutch an- 
cestors.^' Other Ibreign military bands are still more cjeelusive. 

It is a well known fact that foreign voters excuse themselves when called on 
to do militia duly, by asserting that they are aliens. This is also common in 
reference to jury duty; they arc ever ready, however, and eager to vole. Not 
one in twenty of those who vote, do either jury or militia duty ! Why are they 
thus privileged more tlian Americans? A commanding oh"icer undertook to 
exclude tliose from voting who had thus excused themselves from militia duty. 
Let others go and do likewise. It is true, as we have said, that we have little 
confidence in them as soldiers, and especially when armed and br.nded together 
exclu.sfvely as foreigners ; yet we see no reason why all should not comply 
with the laws; why they should be exempt from the duties, since they enjoy 
all, and even more, of theyiH; t/f^cs of Americans: in fine, why they should be 
favored so far above Americans, since they have little of the spirit, and in fact 
are opposed to oni* institutions ! 

A startlingevidence, among others, of the nature of foreign influence, associa- 
tions and prejudice, is the combmiaUon of foreigners to prevent Ameriean nte- 
clumirs from obtaining anployment ! The immerous public school-houses which, 
under tit-? present Roman Catholic school law, yet, without being called for by 
the public necessity, and only to clutch at power to gratify foreign ambition, to 
establish a political religion, and to repudiate the useoflhe Bible, were erected 
by Ihem to ihe almost total exclusion of Americans. On some, contracted lor 
by foreigners, we are told, nol an American was allowed to work. An Ameri- 
can mason obtained work on a building in this city the other day, the hands of 
which were a// Irish. But '• he had not worked more than uu hour." says the 
account, '■ when the rest of th; workmen or.icrcl hhn, ai bcin^ an Amcrivan, to 
qiUlworkI On appealing to the forem\n, the Irisli workmen tlireatened to 
break oil' and leave the building, i/'/'ie .^//it-Wcrtrt was n)t imniediutc'ij disrhargcd, 
which was ilunr forthwith!" '■ Upon tiuestioning liim,'" continues the relator, a 
most resneclable citizen, "I found that he and four other.s liad, the day pre- 
viously, oeen dischargi-d from the culvert now in course of buildiii'^: for the 
Long I.sland Kail Roail Company, for the same eitu,<:e, an I bif the .same means!" 
This .flinericnn merhanir was then advised to get emi^loym'nt on anotlier job, 
in anotherp.iriof the city. " On proceeding there, he was immediately inform- 
ed by the director of the work that it was of no use ; that if an Jhneriean went 
to work on the building, the other hands (nil Irishmen) would immediately quit 



ILLUSTRATIONS OK KOlltlON INKLUENCK. 55 

work!" This needs no comment. We will, however, add the remarks of a 
public paper on the subject. " There can no longer be a doubt that a rt^ular 
and sijsUvtatic organizalion at this momcnl exists arnons; the combined honies of 
Irish liiboren*, to prevent every Auicrican citizen from obtaining employment in the 
departments of work tnonopolized by themselves!" 

The New York mechanics issued a placard some time since, speaking of T. 
Thorn, a contractor on Trinity Church in tliis city, as ^^ a forcit^n pauper" 
who had reduced their wages below tlu; re;;ular price, and had sent to Scotland 
to import others, to complete the workon that building. 

ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE. 

Examples of the general and hostile influence of foreigners in opposition to 
our institutions and to our native citizens, and of their irreconcilability to both, 
are so numerous that it inight be thought useless to cite any of them here in 
proof of the present alarming height and inevitable results of that influence in 
our country. But a few instances, given promiscuously, may tend to convince 
some of our countrymen, not so familiar with them as those residing in our 
chief cities, that there is not a moment to bo lost in defending our institutions 
against them. It is obvious that, in all cases whore foreigners dare manifest 
their foreign feelings and purposes — and we find they now dare do almost any- 
thing — they do it with insulting arrogance and recklessness; and this is posi- 
tive proof of what they will do when their power is a little more " concentrated." 

At a meeting of native citizens, held in this city three years ago, on the 
subject of American principles, Irish Catholics rushcd'into the room and 
broke up the meeting by threats and hideous noises ; and the Americans 
escaped from the Ilall under their threats. When this was done, they boasted 
of it as " a triiunph of the Pope over Americans t" American Associations are often 
scouted, ridiculed and broken up by these foreigners, while they hold their 
Repeal and innumerable other meetings, and threaten and '■ agitate" as much 
as they please. Americans should bear these things in mind. " Tlic Catholics 
begin to feel their strcngth[iy' says the Catholic Register, " since they have form- 
ed themselves into an associated body !'' Yes, the Catholic papers too, openly 
attemptetl to show that capital crimes and guicide are the necessary c(f)Uicquenccs of 
our public school systcjn! One of these says, with characteristic impudence, 
" We entreat our opparunts" (the friends of our public schools) " to pause in the 
prosecution of a system of ediocaiion ivhich, affording no prcseJTOtive against crime, 
will even'ually ckmorolize society. As an experiment, it has been too long tried 
— and, that it has failed of the desired success, is proved by the crowds of soap- 
locks, rowdies and undisciplined youths that infest our streets, * * *. " The 
system is in every rcspccl heathenish! Wc, at least, will take care to preserve our 
children from its contaminating influence!" Road this again and think it over, 
Americans, and tell us your opinion of our public schools. 

They say, too, in their arrogant claims to control our institutions, and espe- 
cially our public schools, — the great buhvark against their designs and preju- 
dices, and emp]\^\icMy the Anwrican tempUs of freedom, — " IV'e have eidisled the 
sympathies of thu Catholics of all Ewo'peV No doubt of it. Be therefore on 
your guard, Americans! 

In many of the wards of our city, old native Americans have been deterred, 
through fear, from voting at our elections. Even the lives of adopted cilizens 
have been threatened, as lately that of the superintendant of streets, an Irishman. 
Our Aldermen, too, have been followed with stones and clubs An old Knick- 
erbocker of the 12th Ward, has l>een hunted and driven from the polls with 
shelalas. in momentary danger of his life. These cases, indeed, are common. 
In Philadelphia, foreigners lately undertook, and jvartially succeeded, in driv- 
ing away, by threats and force, native citizens from the polls of some of the 
wards. Gross insults fioin them, it is well known, are too common for special 
notice. 

Since the massacre of native Americans by the Catholic Irish in Plriladel- 
phia, a gentleman was dragged from his house and horribly beaten, for no 
other reason, it is said, than because he was on the Native American ticket! 



56 ILLUSTF.ATIONS OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE. 

•An American citizen, passing down the 8th Avenue in this city, was asked 
by three Irish if he was going to the ward meeting. Being answered in the 
affirmative, they fell upon him with stones and hiudgeons, and beat liim so 
that his life was despaired of. He was horribly mutilated. 

Tlie frequent assault.s by foreigners upon our countrymen at their noisy and 
drunken revelries, are well known to our citizen.s; and the cases of murder, 
technically construed matishughtcr in the "fourth degree," are not to be readily 
forgotten. Nor is the late case at Syracuse, at the Dutch tavern, where an 
American was shot clown, and many sliot at through the windows, wounding 
several, beyond recollection. 

They undertook, with clubs, stones and threats, to break up a large meeting 
of American Republicans in the 12lh Ward, and but for the firmness of the 
Americans, they would have done so. with loss of life, perhaps. Before the 
murderous attack of the Irish Catholics with fire-arms on the native Ameri- 
cans in Philadelphia, they had broken up anolh-r of their meetings by tearing 
down their stand and tnrcatening them with violence. And prior to that, 
they had several times formed in large bodies and rioted for several day.s 
through that city, destroying work and property, and assaulting quiet citizens 
in the most barbarous manner. 

The disturbance of one of our own meetings by an Irish Roman Catholic 
Street Inspector, of the 12th Ward, and the attempt to break up another in the 
17th Ward, by taking possession of the stand, and the appointment of one 
Malonry, an Irishman, as Chairman, arc evidences of the feelings and intenlioos 
of foreigners here. • 

At an American Republican meeting in Westchester, some months since, 
the Americans were assailed by a bod}^ of barbarous Irishmen employed on 
the public works, and manj' of the Americans, being unguarded, were violently 
"beaten. The life of one of the Americans was despaired of. Large bodies of 
Irishmen, it is said, were seen going towards the place of meeting, but fortu- 
nately after it had adjourned. The attempt of the Irish, at Flushing, to break 
xip an American meeting was of a similar character. 

An American odicer was assaulted and murderously beaten by foreigners, 
in Ilannibaj, Mo., for daring to speak in praise of the Native American party 
there. 

With their habits and morals in our populous cities, most of our country- 
men are acquainted. The low, filthy grogshops of our cities are filled with 
them, and the chief of such shops are also kept by them. During a walk 
through one of the wards of this city on Sunday a citizen counted forty-seven 
of these grogshops open; forty-two of which ?i-c>c /.c/;^ by forc};^iicrs'. Their 
dance houses on the Sabbath are numerous, noisy and vicious in the e.xtreme. 
Music, instrumental and vocal, is practised during the day, and ardent spirit.? 
are used to excess by botli se.ves. Very few foreigners, comparativelv, attend 
church, except a portion of them in the morning, while the most of them visit 
these houses, pleasure grounds, grogshops, etc. Some reform, however, has 
been accomplished in these things, as in other sources of vice, by the present 
American Republican authorities; and we trust by their continuance in well- 
doing, a lasting reform will mark their administration. 

The rhiiatlelphia Ledger says, " in the course of his editorial remarks he 
had occasion to speak of the debased state of Ireland in the scale of tempe- 
rance. On the day following, he was waited upon by a committee of Irish- 
men, requiring him 1o retract or they would drop his paper, &c. They were 
the representatives of the grog.ihoji keepers, ll' these persons can threaten 
the public press, where will they stop t We note it down as one of the signs 
tliat daily come to us from every quarter, of the disposition to trample upon 
Amf-rican rights." This, we miy add, is in kee|iiiig with the largo meetings 
of foreigners lately held in this city to denounce and browbeat our present 
Common Council, for shutting up their low and noisy grogshops, on the Sab- 
bath, their tirades of abuse of the public authorities, and their insulting brava- 
do and ttireats as expressed l.v resolutions and puhliislied in the public papers. 

A meeting of one thousand Germans was held in Cincinnati after their destruc- 
tive riot there, a year or two ago, to bnxvc public opinion, to mark out the Une of 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN* INFLUENXE. 57 

political policy of the pooplo of the United States; and to condeifin the policy 
already established. Their opinions and proceedings on hoth were paraded in the 
public papers at jjreat length, disgusting: every American at their bold assump- 
tions and audacious dictation. "We are at a prelty pass,''said a public paper there 
at the time, " if we are to be instructed )/t our rij^hts and out of them by foreign 
partizans; if the presumptuous insolence of this class of foreign desperadoes,wno 
having just landed on the shores of our once happy countiy, are permitted to 
arraign our highe jit judicial tribunal, to threaten the legislature, to take the la\r 
into their ov\mi hands and to destroy the property of corporate and private insti- 
tutions, and unblushinglyavow their purpose to visit other institutions with like 
vengeance! Go on," continues the writer, "ye levellers, lawless freebooters, and 
cast-oli' incendiaries of foreign climes. But do not flatter yourselves that the 
patient and forbearing spirit of Americans will sleep forever! Americans! 
will ye sleep longer ? Are our dwellings, ouv lives, to be doomed to tiie fury 
of a foreign rabble, a reckless mob "? Are Americans to be instructed in the 
meaning of their own ronstituiion by a heterogeneous mass of beings, the sweep- 
ings of the old world !" These ruffians justified their lawless and destructive 
acts, by resolving tliat '■ We hope the severe ivaniiiis; thus given by the late mob 
will he /ivi't^ff/, &c., for they (Americans) may rest assured, a like provocation 
will produce like consequences !" 

This spirit of foreignism and hostility to our institutions, might be exempli- 
fied by their threats during their agitation of the School question, and the 
orgatii/.atiou of their foreign party and ticket. One example will suffice. 
One of their leaders and chief speakers at Was/iinqlon (!) Hall, during the great 
and threatening meetings said, "T-Ft' nnll have the division of the school fund, 
and the school bill, if we (sliaking his fist in an angry and threatening man- 
ner) have to obtain it hy physical force!''' 

What redections rush upon the vision of an American, on being told, as we 
have been, by a political hireling, a foreigner, " You ' natives' may make the 
best of your power noio, but you will soon find yourselves in the minority !" This 
is big with meaning, yet it means no more than what reality may soon justify. 
Again, another says, " We will show you that we can use tire sword as well 
as you Americans." This, thouglT quite gratuitous, also has a rncanini:, and 
one, that, like the other, cannot be mistaken. It is also in harmony with the 
meaning of the '■ Catholic Canticle,'' by the Repealers, 

" Let the powder be dry, and well whetted the steel, 
We'll shiver the hell-hounds with Catholic darts, 
Led on "by our clergy," &c. 

And there is a meaning, likewise. i'i that part of it which says, "to humble 
the curst Yankees." We say, ■\vhat reflections are these threats calculated to 
call up in the minds of p\ne and patriotic men ? Remember then, counlrj-men, 
and remember tci, what we say — 

'• Up ! or freedom breathes her last !" 

At large meetings of ''Adopted citizens," and aliens, called at St. John's Hall, 
and other places in this city, they often declaimed against native citizens, 
other parties, and our institutions. They pompously assert their great politi- 
cal consequence, and loudly and clamorously demand office as the reward of 
their political importance — " because," as they say, " the Irish and other adopt- 
ed citizens iiave been refused partition in office — our riglUs have been nes^kcted 
and outraged — that we are bound to take a decided stand n nd dcniaml a fair share of 
the representation as a right which u-c v:ill have at all hazards.'' Committees are 
appointed at their meetings to colder with the Germans, and to urge upon all 
adopted citizens tire necessity o[ asserting their rights with a high harul and deter- 
mined resolution ! — that Irishmen have rights upon the country of their adoption, 
which must and shall be heard and appreciated P' These, and a thousand other 
declarations as to their rights, their defiance of native citizens, their determi- 
nation to have their own way in political matters, in their arrogant claims to 
office and to legislation, which we might quote, speak trumpet-tongued, their 
purely selfish and foreign character. Hence, as we see, they eagerly seize at 



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political power, right or wrong, to hold, in ttrrorem, one or the other of th« po- 
litical parties of the day, and thus to compel such party to yield to their de- 
mands both for oflice and for the modification of our laws, to suit their foreign 
purposes. Some of these declarations, at the various places of their meetings, 
are calculated lo fill the minds of Americans with indignation. But enough 
for the present ; yet were the reader to ask if this is what was expected in 
giving them the privile^^es of Americans — to join together as foreigners and 
demand, leach-like, "' more, more, more" oflices and power, and to threaten 
Americans if tlieir demands are not granted ? 

It cannot but excite the indignation, also, of every honourable American, 
when associated with his countrymen to reform public abuses, to be denounc- 
ed by foreigners as a " miserable faction," a term never yet, though it might 
be with signal justice, applied to them. The opprobrious epithets they have 
used likewise, in speaking of native citizens, are too numerous and too excit- 
ing for enumeration. Besides those we have mentioned, an Irishman writing 
in the Washington Globe, calls us, " English Blood-howuls, who rciU be made to 
quail before llie Irish wolf-dog — Irishincn .'"' He at the same time calls upon " my 
(his) countrymen" to rally and vote for Jlr. Van Buren, because he elevated 
an Irishman to a high oflTice ! He also reviled Gen. Harrison as "the vilest 
Orangeman in America," because he said, " I rely upon the votes of my coun- 
trymen !" These are the na-sons he sets forth — speaking through that paper 
as the organ of the Irish — for his infamous denunciations of Native Americans. 
This, and a continued strain of calumny, communicated through several let- 
ters, addressed to Irishmen, were especially directed to Native Americans, in 
view of the increasing numbers of tlie Native American association at Wash- 
ington, and the growing prospects of our party. He further calls us " British 
tories ami Native Americans — Orangemen — the lineal descendants of those very 
men whom our ancestors so gloriously _^o£^^cci at Pontcnoy !" &c. — " This is the 
land of defeat." he says, " we have in store for the native American Orange- 
men!" '-Irislimen! in the sacred name of lihcrti/, I conjure you to arouse 
yoiirselres] — Irishmen of the empire State of New York! you constitute the 
Irish Brigade of the grand army .'" &c. And furtlier, " your natural desire for re- 
venge" — " the skulking badgers of native Americanism" — America and Ireland 
expect every man to do his duty !" — "Liberty or death !" — "Rally to the onset 1" 
— " You shall share the laurels of vicory " — " the merit of your grateful servi- 
ces," — "the success of your gallant exertions." — 'strike terror!" — "spread 
joy over the verdant hills of your own blessed Ireland," — " let your battle cry btf 
Fonloioi/, and victory shall be yours!" — "hurrah for ould Ireland!" — "We 
shall lick them to their heart's content, and give them, what they least expect, 
a Fon'owif defea'.''^ ^■Irishmcnf the b.ittle is commenced, the flag is unfurled, 
the enemy bluster like bullies," — "Ali, the vile tories! how they do delight to 
adopt the watch v.-ord of their English brethren," fee. But enough, here you 
are challenged to battle, Americans, what will you do ? 

A western paper edited by an Irishman, calls those native citizens who 
will take no part in this ceaseless "agitation," and blarney about ]\cpenK"tnisc- 
rable miscalled wUiocs i" who "show their snaggled teeth, and open their atra- 
bilious vonom bag," &c. An American paper at St. Ix)uis. says, in reply : — 
"Mi8calli;d natives, indeed! We hurl back the epithet, and brand its authors 
with one wdich will stick to him — ungrateful Irishmen — misyiamed ./Immcansl" 
Nothing is more common than to hear foreigners tniduce this country and 
our countrymen, though they are getting a living in it and from us, so much 
l)e"iler than that which they bbtain'or could obtain at home. They arc con- 
tinually vilifying our institutions and pouring out their spleen and abuse upon 
us; ihr-yare dissalisfie;! with alm.ist everything they see and iiear, and are 
ever miking disjjaranin^' comparisons between our country and theirs, between 
us and tlieir counlryim-ii. " Oh! this is notiiing to be compared," say they, 
with such and such lhin;,'s "in my country." As characteristic of this, an 
Irishman waid the other day," Ah and I thought you called this a free country; 
sure, troth, it's no freer noi our country, fori hasn't bought a ha'peth here 
that 1 hav'nl had to pay for.' This is the idei of freedom with one half. 
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are among tlicse slanderers, and those, too, holdins; offices of authority over 
us. One of tlie most wealthy, though a pauper when he came l»ere, is one of 
the most ''liberal," in his denunciations against us and our laws, He is 
now a lordly landlord, and he abuses our legislators outrageously for passing 
the act which protects the household furniture of the poor tenant, and chiefly 
that of his own Irish countrymen. He lives, prince like, in Broadway. 

Every American knows these things to be true; and he should say to all 
these grumbling dissatisfied foreigners, "go home to your own countTy and 
countrymen, then, if ours are so much inferior, and there g(!t your living, there 
do your own voting and your own grumbling! 

"How in the name of conscience," says the Boston Pilot, formerly, and not 
xmappropriately called ' The Jesuit,' "can a man have the impiuievce to find fault 
with hovest emigrants, ?e/jo,5c oioii anecslors icere cmicirant i-ir.\'i es (!) for suck 
was the chai-actcr of the carb/ settlers of New England III — The pilgrim fathers 
of New England Pirates ! Think of this, Americans ! — You whose fathers fled 
from the rhains, the torture, the flames! — of these very Roman Catholics, who 
now call them '• Pirates !'' 

These foreigners, too, with all their other " strong provocations, bitter burn- 
ing wrongs " \iA\e. '• told us that they are '" better Am(Micans " and hence that 
they better undtMstand and can belter make, administer, and defend our laws 
than native citizens ? and, therefore, that they should rule over us according fo 
their supreme pleasure ? They have, in large bodies, formally denounced us 
as " enemies of liberty " and declared in their meetings and public papers, that 
they " iJes))i<-!e and abhor " us. They have " lle^ohed " at large gatherings that 
*' We (Irishmen) excel them (native citizens), in all the noble and generous 
virtues of the heart — that they (native Americans) are the Helots (slaves) of 
this happy and independent Republic, who try, like ihcir Grecian prototypes, 
to obtain respectability (!) on the ruins oi those boni to be their Masters!!" 
They have, in formal, published resolutions, at large meetings and in the pub- 
lic journals, grossly insulted and abused native citizens by the opprobrious 
epithets of ' Skulking Badgers,' — ' Spawn of Puritan Bigots,' — ' Canting 
Knaves,' — ' Seditious and unprincipled Caterers,' — ' Ignorantly and Ruffianly 
of the Populace,' — ' Moral Pestilence,' — ' Pandercrs to the passions of the Vi- 
lest, — " CantiniiPharisees,' — ' Bigoted Heretics,' — ' Damnable Heretics,' — ' In- 
cendiaries,' — ' Pirates ' ' whose Ancestors were Pirates,' (!) — ' Bigoted Illiterate 
Creatures,' — ' Dismal-minded Calumniators,' — 'Vermin,' — ' Noxious Reptiles,' 
— ' Foulmouthed Bigots,' — 'Orangemen, — 'Damned Yankees,' — "Mobs, infu- 
riated and mad with inllamcd and bigoted passions'' — '• Blue Law Canting 
Crew" — " Brawling Braves" — " Native Knaves" — Pagan Savages" — " Heathen 
Mob" — Hell-hounds" &c., &c. 

We noticed in another article of this foreign jiajier some choice sentiments 
respecting; the Natii^e .Americans of New York a few of which we stop to quote — : 
" Miserable clique,""- infaTnons gan:r." "blackguards,'' " rowdies." " host of idle 
loafers," " worst species of rowdy i'?m." '• They (American Republicans of N. Y.) 
have nothing to lose by 011/ change that may take place, as they consist of the vorsl 
ar^i tnast degraded clashes." " They long to eTcct such a change {i\n{ the change of 
our public schools) in the hope of succeeding to plundir and pillage the peace- 
able and industrious, of wealth and ptopcrty- That this is the object of those 
recklesn park of rujjian':, no one can doubt. It behooves every friend of law and 
order ( Irishmen ) to stop forward and crv^'ih thi^ filthy snng in its infancy, as some- 
thins viu:it be done to pwtect the cowrUni from their rabid roirs." 

" The repeal associations are now being held in the various wards of tlie city, 
and the otticers of the Associations are rapidly increasing. The news from 
Ireland by the next steamer is looked for with a degree of interest that 110- 
thi •!: ran rc/Hiil : and //ic affairs of Ireland continue \o absorb the pTblic attention 
in all i)arts of tlie city. The vmcrgenry find! and in fact the organization of 
the Society (Irish Repealers) in America has now becomi^ a formidable weapon! 
in the hands of Ireland's friends '."etc. Americans should icad this attentively, 
and compare what is said of .^maiean associition with what is said of foreign 
Irish repeal associations, and then reflect upon lohat vc are in their view ; what 
lue should be. and v/hat toe soon tciil be, if we do not both reflect and act. What 
American doed not blush with indignation at such lang\ifge ? 



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One of the oratorical foreii|:n ili-magogues sakl, while addrecsing a meeting 
©f 'I his countrymen," at Tammany Hall, as publicly reported, " One more diargt 
and the 7iatix^e citiznis arc prostrate in the dust, from whence tha/ sprung !" A Dub- 
lin paper said " The Irish party arc trinrfiphant in Neiv Yorky 

Not content with abusing us and our institutions, they slander our sires and 
enter the graves of the most venerated of them for that purpose. Faimy Wright, 
the foreign termagant, agrarian, and ultra radical, who came here to ktture 
Americans on morals and laws, and who was taken by the hand by men now high in 
office in this city, said that " Robert Morris, Fisher Ames, Alexander Hamilton, 
John Jay, and a host of others, were a sd of sri'mj fellows !'' 

Wc v.ill make an extract or two from another article in one of these Roman 
Catholic foreign papers at Boston, in reference to the bloody afi'airin Philadel- 
phia, etc., begun by his countrymcii in mi'.nlrring. at " one fell swoop." fourteen 
Native Amcncans pcaecahhj collected in the streets, because they were Native Ameri- 
cans! — to show the falsehoods, and the diabolical spirit of these foreigners. 
" The wrath of God has been aroused in the Catholic breast!'' " A heathen 
mob is allowed to s/irk the sarrcd temple of tlip living God (to take away the 
one hundred stand of loaded guns, the Icegs of powdor, the 1000 bullets and 
slugs and the barbarous pikes — all secreted there to shoot down and mangle 
the bodies of native Americans with) "protected (!) by hcatlien soMiers, a heathen 
viayor who connives at the deed" — Gracious God to what sort of aland hare icc 
been lured ? " — (that we may not massaci-e.^nthoi'.t resislanre, native Amn-icans as 
u-e please!) " The sturdy, brave, coura.goons. resolute Irishmen (who skulked 
witliin brick walls and shot through holes down upon native Americans stand- 
ing «>w/7««/ in the streets!) — their virtuous wives, their virtuous daughters, 
c&ulff have ! defended (why did they not ? Why did Native Americans alone de- 
fend it ?) "'against the combined and concentrated barbarity of Nalicc Heathen- 
ism, Paganism, Monuonism, Millerism, Fourin-ism, Th'.mpism. Jumpism, Method- 
ism, Nonscnsism, and eveiy other ism coupled with the morality! of the Phila- 
delphians ; their dear and lovely women !^' '' It will flourish (their Church) de- 
spite of Native Paganism and Heathenism, and wc shall fight for and defend it, 
like true soldiers." " This Orange tiger (American Republicanism) wei^ frowned 
down at Albany: it wos shot doiim at Philadelphia!" '' Let it not dare to bark or 
growl at our Churches in Now York, or we will use a more efficacious remedy tluin 
tlic hero of old!" It then calls us " Biblicals and fanatics,^ "pack of vulgar bigots, 
whose nonsensical railings and preachings on morality," &c., '•tWgrt)- clownish Mis- 
sionanj." "Fanatical Societies," ''The Catholic Press" — " ihc Liberty loving Pnsit, 
the Patriotic Pri^s of America!' " The clcmoital fire from Heaven, to burn up this 
land!" he. " His (Frolinghuysen's) insolntt assault and cry of " We won't give 
up the Bible !" should put the country on its guard. I ask yon to look at this new 
monster in America!" " This is the new Native nwn.stcr (the Bible) in all its lii- 
deous deformity !" It now becomes the Catholics ofAmtrica to look out and de- 
fend themselves, and not allow this rampant fanatical to aitark Bishop Hughes!" 
&c. " If they attack us, icf ore fli/p ^0 (/f/()v/ onr.<!f/rcs,- we will ne.rt allow Ettg- 
la^d to shoot them down at Texas and Oregon, and then wcarc rcculy to shoot dotfii 
Englaiil ourselves!' " Frelinghuysen and his fanatics and bigots." " This is the 
whole histoiy of the outrageous villany at Philadelphia." All thi-i : aye, a 
constant stream of such insults, bravado. Billingsgate, slander, and threats, is 
utttfred by these foreign Roman Catholic presses among us against Americans, 
American Republicans, the I'Jibie, our public schools, &c. 

In relation to this Philadelphia tragedy, the following from the Philadelphia 
Sun, js true and just. It accords with the expressed sentiments and decisions 
o( eighteen other papers of that city, the derisions of the Grand Junj, and other 
legal and gnve bodies of impartial citizens, who examined all the particulars, 
and not the few exparte facts in the case. 

"Is there any power of Iniigiiagc tlmt c.in ctproBsthejiifil lii-irror which every virtiiouBitiind 
must fed, (M Ihi'HO h.irbaiiMiH inur.liTS ol'iiien who wi'n- iiiii''|]v ctiffnged in tlic perrorinnnoe 
of II B.irrrfl ri;;lit, under the I'liiirantee of llii- Coiijililutiim .Tml the protccUim of the hiwj-- ■? 
Whst \vii«i ihi> provociifloii, wIibi the ofroiice on llie pnri of the Native AiiicricRnul To at- 
t-nrl a piihhr itieellng— lo diRciiHS tlieir righlif aiil ili'f'Miil ihem— to d.-hate their wmngn 
und redrcMsthoin— peacefully, eonHiitutionally, and quietly. In sodoliiR, (hey arclnteiTupteU 
by (irioCd buii'!.i of fordJjjii d".siii'r.vttoc?, a-tBaulfd, heattn, and shot downl 



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"At (hi.; awful cnsi>!, it lu coino:; the flut;. of every Aiu'jricaii wlio luve:i hi.-i country, or 
eymp.ilhisoa with his fcllow-cilizcim, to throw olf all'olhi-r ronsidinitioiis but thosu ofHi'If- 
pr.?H'Tvalion, and rally all their thonchts, T'cliims, emMjiios), nnrl alTi.ctions in viiiilicatioti of 
the fame of Republioanism froui tliid foul r«iirou<;h. Wi: are cnntt'iidini; lor Auiericaii rights 
— for the rights of hiuiianity — for tho laws of Ciod— for tin; precious principles of the Ameri- 
can Revolution, Id seciu'e us from the di'spotisoi of forriiii ronci;ades, v.ho.si^ weapon i3' 
physical force, nnil whose arguiuonts an- the blnd!,'foii, llie niuske'., and Ihepiatul — who pause 
at no atrocity, who hesitate at no euorniily, and slnink from no r.riuie. 

*' The time has now arrived to ascertain on what lerias we hold our hherties. This is no 
comroon afrra.v,no everyday lynch-law atrocity. It aims at the extinction of the rights of 
eonscienci; — it so«ks to (losuoy the rights of man. The crisis is a. solemn one." 

Tlioy can shoot us down in the streets ■when unarmed and peaceably assem- 
bled ; and all lliis is to be overlooked, slighted or forj^ol in t!ie enormity of our 
oflence of defending ourselves. We must not resist ! They may tear ia 
pieces and trample under their feet our national banner: and yet all this, too, 
is right cnoui^h, and we must not dare to resent it ! Oh no ! But, as a writer 
says, "we will tell these recipients of our country's bounty that our flag was 
made to wave over the /ire, and not to enshroud in its tattered folds, the man- 
gled cpipscs of our murdered brethren." 

- The Vice President of the '• Irish Repealers," of Boston, well expressed him- 
self and associates, by saying, among many other equally foreign things : — "The 
Engli-sh missed their figure when they supposed that by sending their Irish 
subjects to America, they got rid of them. It was not so,— ict are Irishmen still' 
We are now able to v.ork lor good ould Ireland." And so they raised $12.5 on 
the spot for O'Conuell, and received a letter from him with six rounds of 
cheers, (eighteen in all) which letter acknowledged the receipt of one hundred 
)K>unils, previously sent him by them — but which should have gone to support 
their pauper countrymen in our Alms Houses. They have raised $1,000 at a 
time at their meetings. A leader, and formerly the President of the Piepeal 
Association in this city, Mr. Emmet, was one of the very highest oiHcers in 
our city government ; and he has received from it over STO.OOO ! How much 
mor^ consistent and American it v.-ould have been to have given this to an 
American, to have helped paid his tax for the support of foreign paupers, and 
to have saved any of it from going into the pockets of O' Council, the slanderer 
of American.-;. AH this, and the vast amount of other funds, is raised here, as 
they 9ay, " for O'Connel and liberty V . But who ever heard O'Conndl or any 
of these Repealers advocating liberty in a slavish and tyrannical Catholic 
country ? 

The abusive slanders recently and publicly cast upon a distinguished and 
worthy citizen, notwithstanding he had been to thern a benevolent friend, is 
an example of their characteristic ingratitude. But lliis is to be expected by 
all who are supposed to stand in the way of their selfish and ambitious foreign 
purposes. The particulars we have not room to notice, but our citizens will 
jjcrceivc that we allude to M. I\I. Noah,Esq. — ViTio among other things was stig- 
iiialized by them as belonging to a proscribed race, &c. ; and yet this man had 
let many of tlie poor wretches out of prison, and paid their debts during the 
prevalence of the yellow lever in this pity. He states, however, in reply to 
Their slanders, that, as early as 1 SI 7, the '"'Irish patriots," as they are called, 
who lied to our country for their lives, and who " received a cordial welcome," 
at once detern>ined to take, the control of mnlfcrs into their oicn hands ; and they 
assembled at Tammany IPil! to insist on the adoption of a political ticket of 
t-hciroivn makinp:. In the midst of the riot they cried "t/oi/vi vith the natircs!" and 
when ejected iV'^m the wig-warn, they v.-ent over in a body to St. John's Hall, 
made another ticket for Assembly and county officers, anJ ranit'. Men iwt a 
week in the country attended this meeting," he. This was the character of those 
'• Irish patriots," and this is, ever has been, and ever will be the character and 
gratitude of such foreign "patriots." They care only for their own foreign 
interests, their own country, and their own countrymen, and this is the length 
and breadth of the patriot ism they feel or manifest. If the writer then, as he 
says, " made up his mind that, unless some legal check was interposed to thi.-; 
foreign influence, Ainericans never would be able to select their own rulers." 
how much greater reasons are there for thinking so now ? And in 1822, when 
these '• patriots''were asked by the Democi-atic party to aid in the election of 



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this benevoient gentleman to the office in which he had done them so much 
service, these '" gratcriil Irish "' roiild not vote ("or a Jew, and "could not allow 
a Jew to hani{ a Christian.' Accordingly, they selected an Irishman for the 
office, arid by selling themselves to another party, they succeeded in electing 
him! 

This is their gratitude, their " liberality." This discerning writer concludes 
by saying, that " our uneducated Irish (and these constitute nine-teulhs of the 
whole), are slavisli, bigoted, violent, and intolerant, and are always under the 
control and direction of leaders. If they are educated they will at once reject 
the influence of the Jesuits. The Native American party (of which he is not 
one), to do them justice, are in favor of conferring on them any right but im- 
mediate voting." &c. He says further, " Irishmen are everywhere Irishmen ; 
we cannot mnlcc .^jiicrirans of llicm,'^ and, in nllu ling to their calling him a "po- 
litical Jew," he says, "it comes with a very bad grtice from a body of men 
whose religion has been political and temporal iVom the days of Constantine 
to the present moment, and whose power, tor fifteen centiiries. has been cvery- 
tchcre marked with proscription aiul blood! No set of men are more determined to 
achieve political power, none who so industriously confederate for that pur- 
pose," etc. And this is just what Jefferson said they would do. 

A paper of our city holds the following just language, though prompted by 

J )rivale pi<iue, and itself under the same base influence,; but " when rogues 
all out," &c. Oh, for an independent Ainerican press! 

Tluis mated, have these fugitives front tlie workliouses and slews of Britsin. set IhemTlveR 
up in our midst, and, by !h'- .'lid of a press and t)',"ej, assiiniHil to theni3elve.s l!ic supervision 
of our tflorious Republic — its inierest3, conslit'.iiinns, law.n. and jiublic funcli-maries. Fron» 
the Pr-siJenl of ihe Union down to tlie commonest tip-staffol our wards ; from the most im- 
porlaiii national measures to Ihe most insinnificant luerropoliian alfair ; to all and of all does 
this precious gang of foreign vagabonds assume to diciafe, commend, i-onden»n d.»nounce, 
Tilify, misre|iri'seiit ridicule, and libel. Our most brilliant ;ind Piiceined public men, and 
our most prominent and venerate(i private citizens are insulted and ri liculed by them ; our 
institutions and our laws are inadi^ Ihe ih°mes of low jests and inf uncus sa ires by ihera ; 
and our public officers, from the 'n?hest in the land to ilie lowest sub irdmate of 'he htunblest 
village, are by turns libelled and laughed at ; coinm.inded and cajoled ; scoflTedal and solicited, 
reproved, coriunei:ded, or reprimanded; insulted, ruiiculed, and fulsomely panegyrized; 
as suit.? the whims, the ,-apriccs, or the interests of these foreiKU vampires. Is it not time 
that our authorities put forth their strong arm to protect oar citizens, our common cor.ntiy, 
anil our political and civil institutions, from this b,>n(l of ibngerous and disgraced British 
vagabonds! The voice of the .\mrrican pre^s and the American public is uiiaimnous in it* 
call for such an interference on their p.trt, in behalf of the public pence and safely, and of 
public decency ; and it is a happy thing for il\is city, and the country at large, that not only 
reproiif, but siill more elTicient measures have been adopted by oiT cnminnl court lo ab.Me this 
imported nuisance, and relieve our community from one of tlic mostolinoxious and ilangerous 
pests that ever fastened itself with leech like appeiiie ujion this or any other boily politic. 

Notwithstanding the native purity of our institutions and all our benevolence 
for transported paupers and criminals, they treat us* in high places abroad as 
well as by their presses, with the utmost contumely and slander. A tmblcman 
says of us, " Every n)ale, from 11 to If), carries a Bowie Knife, to enable him 
to be judge and jury, and the executioner of his own law ! I'he .^mcriain peo- 
ple are diiven to commit open murder, because their laws have not force suffi- 
cient to protect them ! I opcnlij detest their government, because it 's a l>jranntjf 
I have rea-ons to assure your lordship, tliat the people sernilij ilrtest their -^orern- 
vicnt as murk as I do!" This is ro/nmon language there; but if we were to re- 
fuse to provide for no more of their paupers and criminals, we might convince 
them that we still bore some regard for our i/i/rn.'!/.'! and for our government. 
The manner in which Americans and their institutions have been slandered 
abroad, and especially by foreign itinerants, who have partaken largely of our 
courtesy ;ind boiiiitv. is too well known to need coinment or (piotatioii, and it 
!!« too dis;,'usting wiihal to ////«,t much of. It is to be hoped that Ameiicans 
will have iearneil how to use this class of foreigners hereafter. 'l"he liate o» 
foreigners, of us and our institutions, has continued from the first settlement, 
of our country. Let any one read "' Walsh's .Appeal" to leain the cruelty amf 
contempt with which tlwy have treated our fitliers, our institutions, am! every- 
thing Ain'-ricau. The iiiduence ;iiveii Ic liirei^n capitalists and aliens by the 
investment of S JOO.OOO.OOO in our public woiks, must necessa'ily be lust cause 
of alarm. Besides, their numerous private companie?, with extensive capital 



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and influence, have immense control over our natural resources and institu- 
tions in all parts of our country. 

An English adopted citizen says, " the people of England would never per- 
mit the descendents or the PUbiun piuitlle (our fathers) to rule them '' — very 
courteous ; vci y- It'e would not, and we did not, pernlit the lordly ariston-ats 
of England to rule us. 

The London Times, in its Billingsgate tone against the United States, coolly 
calmlatcs 

"I. Thi' lirerikinc lip of the Unioii by iletaclii"g tho Smitln^rn Srafrsfiom ll'fi Nnnherii and 
Mi<lrtlc Smtts. 2. Tlu; dc-tiuction of the rc-ourrps of ttit- Nortliem and Middle Stata-i." He 
thi-n :r(l(ls tliat the hest imliry lor Urent Hrit'i': lo tako, would lir hy '■ •xcpiJiin'.' ihi- Son h fr m 
a war, and blockading tli>' North in tnc flrict'st niaMnir — uc slmuld destroy all the investment 
in cotton fartoriieiji tlii Nnrt.'i ; by di privin.' tlinn if tlio raw inalcrial we slioulii deprive ihe 
N' rill of one of i'.s stronf! ino'.ives for a war with Kin.'lini<l, wliich .•tIhcs from ihr prot're,-8 whi^ h 
i'H minnfic'iires are inaUng; and as the tVreiL'n counti-i«s whicli tiiey =i pjily (viz.. Moiocco, 
80U1I1 Anicricii, Eastern Se-is, <fec-.) would no longer be ^upplil d by llieni, we should be cieiiting 
now i)|iinings for our own ninnu'"aitnr"s.'' 

The writer B ales thai, ho h:!-* iJaied a plan fir r.onductii g a war with Americ.T, in the bands 
of tlie llrili.-h govirnnient, who liave highly approved of it. 

But the North American Review says of our relations with England, 

" It is not Fafe any more iban it is riqht, ihat we should iicquie^te in encronehm nt* and affront 
from any qnarter, however formiibible. It is not safe, hi CMiH' to yield to iheni Ls ai once to in- 
vite Ih' ir re[ieti:ion and to abandon oiir vantage gronnci, by inip.iiring the streiglh and P(irit 
Wliich will he iiUiinately needful 10 npel them. Security is only to be found in a d ol vigdance 
and deierminalion, and in them it is to in- lound ; we aie not a people need:ni;, or liKtly, to dis- 
trust their efficacy in any troublesome posture olafTairs." 

We can have no stronger evidence of the undying attachment of men for 
"their own, their native land," than that exhibited by "Irish Repealei's," and, 
of course, no better evidence of their incapability of having anything to do with 
the control of the government of any other countries. It may be said that an 
Irishman or Englishman is just as well qualified to administer the govern- 
ment and laws of the United States, while yet a resident of his " native land,'* 
as that he is qualified here ; for he feels none the less attachment, as all expe- 
rience and observation show, for that land, because he happens to be in an- 
other. Why, should we not, since this is the case, admit then, all Europe to 
vote at our elections, and make and amend our laws to suit their pleasure ? 
So far as love of country is concerned — and that is the great object of conside- 
ration, we might just as well send our ballot-boxes to Europe for the votes 
of foreigners there, as to yield them up to foreigners here. The mere locality 
is nothing, if the love of country, the necessary principle, the motive, the 
intelligence, &c., be wanting in a voter here. In this, what advantage has the 
mass of foreigners here over foreigners there? A vast many more there are 
intelligent, and know more of our country, our policy and the nature of our 
institutions, than the mass here, and who, consequently, would vote more un- 
derstandingly. It would therefore appear much safer to trust to the judgment 
of enlightened, liberal-minded foreigners iu FAirope, so far as these essential 
principles are concerned, than it would to the stupidly ignorant, the bigoted 
and prejudiced priest-ridden foreigners here. The love of country, as we have 
shown, being the same, that is, of a foreign country, the superior judgrnent, 
liberal-mindedness, morals, &c., of the one, would evidently predominate 
over the characteristics of the others. 

As to the necessity of a man's voting for the laws and government under 
"which he may have placed himself, which is the argument of foreigners and 
their advocates, we see no more force in it. if disqualified for the above reasons, 
than there is in a child's exercising all the powers and functions of manhood, 
politically, socially and physically. Until his majority, however, the laws and 
common opinion dictate his incapacity to govern himself and others, for the 
reason that his experience and intelligence do not qualify him to do so under- 
standingly. To undtrstand a thing, therefore, is to know how to use it safely 
and usefully, either for the advantage of one's self or others. — not because one 
happens to'be placed in relation to a thing. This is the doctrine, and the doc- 
trine which is applied to youth by the common opinion of mankind, and 
which for the same reasons is applicable to foreigners. Our youth, however, 



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possess all the advanta^'es over lovei^ners, in their love of country," their mor- 
als, their iicijiiaiiUance ^^"ith our institutions, iiiul the absence ol' all lbreij;n 
religious, political, or locn! prejudices aiui prepossessions. An American 
youth, therefore, is qualiheih anil essentially better qualified to e.xercise the 
elective franchise, than the mass of foreigners who exercise that exalted privi- 
lege. Hence the reasonableness and the necessity of an amendment of our 
naturalization laws, so as to retpiire a longer period of probation with foreign- 
ers. How much safer it would be. generally, lor American youtli to vote at 
si.tlec"n or eighteen, than for the class of foreigners Ave liave been considering ! 

It has been well asked, in \ie\v of the innate love of country, •' Is there a 
foreigner in American-do yon, reader, know of one — who a\ ill acknowledge 
that he does not love his native country better than any other in the wide 
world ? If there be any so lost to the influences cf those natural affections and 
that love of birth-place which God has planted in every breast, he is at 
cold-hearted wretch, ond deserves no home or heritaje in any land. And, for 
those who still retain that sacred love of country which, born with us, attends 
us to the grave, we simply ask them whether it is just that, in America, wliere 
nil depends upon the popular will, they should ask or receive the same political 
rights with the native born ? Let eveiy intelligent foreigner answer this to 
his conscience." 

Tills, their paramount love of native land, was ex-pressed in a letter from a 
repealer the other day in their Romish organ. He says, " Our homes in the Erne- 
r(dd Isle" — '■»!'/ still loved iinticc land." — ^' sivid namal Association oi Repealers'' 
— "Ireland, our hnppy land." Another talks nhoitt" the dnii/ I oice vuj imtive. 
<onntrtj" etc. Surely they are hetler '■'• natiA es," if not '• better Americans,'' than 
we, native Americans, ''tlie spawn of Puritan bigots.'' We, united Americans, 
bear no comparison.it might seem, with "United Irishmen," in love of ''na- 
tive land."' Well, let them love tlieir nati\ e land, their •' brother Irishmen," etc. 
We expect all this, and we do the same things ourselves when in a foreiirn land. 
But let them let the laws and institutions of our native land alone. When at 
" home," they may do as they please with their native land, its laws, and its 
people, and we will do the same when at '" home"' with ov.r native land, etc. 

it is grossly insulting to our countrymen, and it is designed to be so — to be 
toid at larcre meetings of these foreigners, that we^ave no right to petition 
Congress for an ameiulnient of our naturalization laws, and that our Congress 
has no right to grant our i)etilion ! etc. Even in the interior of Missouri, these 
:\nti "alias" better Americans, have spoken out their hate of, and opposition to, 
na'iivo citizens, and, 

i?c».7?reJ, Th;it wo call 11^0)1 nil fr'cnncnj rr-^i/m? (.') in the Ur.it'^J SlaLCf, tu\A ;i(lmnni«)i 
J>i"m, TOO.*' rnriii-Bthi to joMvs. ill ttikivlf m'nsurrf lo oppfse ji'ojKisiiions (pflilions t'l .'\ntenil 
th(»C!itiirsliea:im lawii). Iii>l(li)i^ in »li-riMi)ii aJl reason and ki^ltcr considerations of civilized 
■noUorvi! Ami to prevent .inch " n calamity to our countriinun (.') nnil all rmi/rranls ! \vc ro- 
((Uf.tt Uinin lu call me'.-tinjs .ind pelltion Congress Ikat tJtc prayer of tht Jfufine .^merieans tr not 

Hrfiolvri, Tltflt a Cominiitce "f vi,!;Uance ami eorreapondtnce, consiiitiii!! of 1^ persons, be 
appointi'd to enter into corr^'.-ipondciici! wiili our (,\nnr.u hnthrcn rcs'iJin;,' nl di.-t.int plicef, la 
watch Out jirocrj:dings and iiiK/vcinnili of the .Xntire .Iru-ricaiis and of Congress (.') oil lliia 
subject, i:tc. 

Mark the language svnd design of this ! All these things, countrymen, tend 
to one ond — tiie subversion of our liberty ! 

A foreigner, in publicly attacking native citizens for daring to petition, ami 
Congress for dariiv.: to entertain tiie prayers of our countrymen for an amend- 
ment of the natur.ili/.aliou laws, compares us with .vinvcji' nnlions, as doi\s the 
novate z.uXhi>T of Ihn '• Appeal lo Voluntary Citizens," and he makes ns suffer 
some, a.s he imagines, by the comparison. He asks '• What rif;!u we have lo 
exclude foreign paupers and criminals, — if we havi- lorgotten that ire eame. from 
the ditnf:hill, from the loins o[ hnpamls, refugees, and fdon-t, and that Providence 
has reserved this country as the grand reservoir for the redundancy of 
Europe," etc. 

ThuH. then, we are told that we must consider our beloved country as the 
great slough-hole for the deposit of the world's filth ; that our fathers, instead of 
being the pure and exulted patriots, the wise, the moral statesmen we had sup- 



ILLV^TUATIONa OV KOIIEION INTLUEVCE. 65 

poaod ihem to have Itfen. were ^' brigands, re/uswf and fdmu!" and llial \ve 
•* came from the tliing-hill," etc. Heavens ! has it come 1o this ? Who amoiijj 
us, having a partich- of those men's hk)0(l coursin;^ our veins — and for ourselves, 
thank God, wc have that which has flowed throu^;h and animated se\en genera- 
tions of American hearts, as well at '■ Bloody Brook." " Bunker Hill," and the 
''war of M2,'' as in " the American councils ' — can sit still and hear otir lathers 
andouTselves thus slandered ? Up. up! countrymen, and defend the memory 
of those you love and revere; defend yourselves, your posterity, your country ! 
Throw hack these foul calumnies in the teeth of the foreign vagabonds who 
utter them, and to whom you too tamely barter away your birth-right ! Drive 
the base slanderers from the free and pure air they contaminate, to that of the 
stews and dungeon? alone congenial to their natural rottenness. 

Why ! foreigners do indeed think thai it is and that it should be our sole ambi- 
tion and study to please and satisfy Ihem. and that we must not interfere with 
their interests, their supreme wi.shes and pleasure. Well, well, countrymen, 
perhaps it should be so ! Perhaps we must sit doAvn like craven idiots at the feet 
of these foreis^n vagabonds, tamely recei\ e their lash, and lick the dust trod upon 
bv thoee ''born lobe our masters !"' But icc are not of that number 

' Well did Jeft'ersou say. in view of such things. • Foreigners are the most dan- 
^'erous foes of our free institutions." And well may Americans inquire, in view 
of them also, if we live in a conquered country or not, and whether we shall not 
flee to some other, to secure those rights and that liberty we vainly supposed 
ourselves possessed of 

Besides the intlammatory and insulting language used against Americans by 
these tbreigners, there are some corrupt Americans (so called), demagogues, who 
are often emploved to address them, where they understand our language suffi- 
ciently well to' be thus addressed. Others cater to their base prejudices, to 
cheat the wretches of their votes. One of these parly hirelings lately address- 
ed to them a pamphlet under the specious title of " An appeal to rohuitanj citi- 
zens." filled with all the party and foreign slang so well calculated, as designed, 
to suit the dejiraved foreign liiaw of his readers. In this, native Americans are 
treated to the slander so characteristic of himself, of foreignism, and of the 
natural prejudices and hate of foreigners. Ourpamphlet, too. is '• an Appeal," 
but not one to nccessan/ citizens ; not to /bn/grt prejudice, ignorance anvl vice. 
No ; it is one to native .^mcHcans. proud of being born upon the soil purchased 
and made sacred by the blood of their fathers ; one to ourintelligent. moral, libe- 
ral and patriotic countrj-men, proudly rejoicing in the inheritance of that glo- 
rious birthright they are disposed to defend against the attacks of'these ■• volun- 
tary'' foreigners, and which tliis hireling slanderer has disgraced. 

The only thing further remarkable about that '-appeal," is that there are to be 
found men, American or foreign — that there is« man who would thus sacrifice 
all of which an American ought to be proud, to party interests and- foreign pre- 
judices. Another demagogue, no less distinuuished in his party madness and 
"soul-enslaving devoti(m to the same groveling means by which to earn the votes 
of foreigners, is suffered by the providence of God to control a public press in 
this city. The examples of his foreignism and abuse of his countrymen, to gra- 
tify the basest prejudices of his few foreign readers— /"cic we congratulate our 
countrymen in saying — are daily ; but that of traducing, vilifying, ridiculing 
the heroes of Bunker Hill, will not, as i1 should not. soon escape the recollec- 
tion of our countrymen. Are we to be tamed down, our perceptions of justice 
stilled, our eyes blindfolded, or ourselves lulled into the sleep of deatli ! The 
time has gone by when foreign Jesuits can drug us with this fatal draught, or 
lure us into their secret snares. Let no American who regards the safety of 
his country, allow himself for a moment to he deceived by the cunninir artifices 
of foreigners or political demagogues— men who would hush you by a childish 
fear of their ghostly aspect, the more fatally to stab you from under the cowl. 
The world has seeii enough of this— every intelligent American ought to have 
seen and heard enough to guard him against these stealthy arts of an enemy. 
Beware, then, Americans ! Fear not to bring your foes io the broad and honest 
light of day, and there boldly meet them in "defence of your rights and your 
country! 

Foreigners sometimes seek to obtain influence ia certain American a-s5oc<a- 



66 • ILLUSTRATIONS OK FOREIGN INFLUENCE. 

tions where their influence can be felt. So strong had that infl'-ence become 
in a cerlain association in thi.s oiiy, that it ruled triump^'anHy, and the charge of 
its a(i\iiis Mul property (in opiiosilion to an Jlincrican ticket), was placed in the 
hands of the Iristi C iiia<Iiaii agitator. M'Kenzie, a notorious alien and rene- 
gade, who sacrificed so many Americans in his Canadian burletta, but who 
was ever careful to keep himself out of harm's way, yet who now lords it over 
Hs iii his ollic<; in oiic Cuxtom House. The example of a foreigner claiining to 
be elected Doorkee,)er of tiie New York Assembly, last year, became lie was an 
Irislman, was a little loo fat for the stomachs of a New York legislative body j 
but party may force tli-jm to gulph down such tilings ere long, and even to give 
litem \[\ii prefcienre, as demimied on that occasion, when filiy good .Americans 
begged for ihe place. Their great elTort seems to be to secure office, eveu 
though it sometim'js be without emolument : and they always bring the whole 
of the votes and influence of their countrymen to operate in their behalf. This 
is illustrated by the fact of all the Irish voting and clamoring for Gen. Jackson, 
because he iva-s barn of Irish parents ! Had he been the son of a Revolutionary 
hero, you would have seen none of that Irish enthusiasm, so prevalent all over 
the country in his behalf Everybody knows this. What do they know and 
care for American Hevointionary patriots? Their country and countrymen are 
all in all with them ; and it matters not what character a man has, or what 
his qualifications m\y be, if he be Irish or born of b-ish parents. This is proof 
of their being " better Americ.ns !" 

At an election not long since, in a neighboring town, out of thirty-nine pub- 
lic officers elected, thirly-thrce were foreigners ! The majority of the officers 
in this city, before the last election, were believed to bo foreigners. Two 
thirds of our city walcii were said to be foreigners. The maj6rity of our con- 
suls abroad, who have so many national interests and those of so many Ame- 
rican seamen under their charge, have been, almost over since our indepen- 
dence, foreigners ! A large proportion of the clerks and sub-officers at Wash- 
ington are foreigners. There were sixty-two of these high in office there, 
several years ago, and those, too, who have been the bitterest enemies of the 
American party at Washington. One of these, while thus holding office over 
us, and in addressinga large body of his Irish countrymen; said, in addition to a 
long trade of abuse against native citizens, " We (Irixhrnm) exrd than (Native 
Americans) in all the rwbU and c'cnproiM irirtues of the heart. They are the very 
helots (slaves) of this happy and indejyenderU Republic, who try, like their Grecian 
prototypes, to obtain rcspei tability (!) on the ruins of those born to be their masters!" 
How gi-ateful must be such a traitor for the office given him to rule over, and 
thus abuse us! This haughty foreigner turned out of employ an American 
clerk, iwi/tr him, because he bcraint: a 7)icmhcr of the IVashin^rton Native Anurican 
Assoriation ; and. though petilioned by many of the most respectable native 
citizens of Washington, he refused to reinstate him 1 

Foreigners are also aided by the constant and zealous elTorts of large associ- 
ations of th?ir countrymen in our cities, in jirocuring employment for new 
alien comi.'rs, and by their arts and the reduction of prices, they succeed in 
ousting Americans, and in filling up almost every new place which occurs. 
During little over three months, one of these societies procured places tor seven 
hunirel and eighty-eig'it p-rsons, half of which were obtained, undoubtedly, 
bv tha rem nal of Americans. An instance of the manner in which they worm 
themselves in'o employ, reduce the price of American l.ibor, and thus worm 
AmMican.4 on' of employ; we minhl cite in one clas^ viz.: that of the IlS.aGl 
seam -n shipped in one year at Ih'? port of N.^w York, only 20J0 mere Jl nrrivaits! 

Their adherenc ■ to one another igiinst Americans, is shown in t!ie fict, that 
an .\m"rican, on paying the Irish I iborers on a section of canal, foun.l great 
numl»"rs chiming p ly who ha I not b;aa cm;)l'>yed, hi therefore refuse 1 their 
cliim?. B.it th^y su-d him. "Oilhswere iieincd upon oiths," tin; acco.mt 
Bav? — " th'.' whole party swoarin-r for one an ith?r! One rri^hiii m, who had 
Bolemi'y sworn to a fui, wis afierwanls lold that it milititel agiinst his 
coimiryin m's success, ai I h; returned to the judge and desired 10 reupysc his 
testimony, decl iring that he had mile a mi.'Ha'cc!" 

S. U.— Bociuie lip pr.imlied to brc.ik down tin- .\mcricaii Republican parly in New York 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF KOKKIGN INFl.UKNCB. G7 

Foreigners are constanlly boxsling, too, of the nchi -ivemeiits of their coun- 
trymo'.'i during our Rovolution, and arrogating to thcrnsolvt-s great praise and 
extraordinary T'jjAis in consei^iience. This silly bo isl, when scanned, is the 
veriest h'tmbug with which they continne to deceive our counlrynion. Where 
thcro was one who was of service to us, thrnc were oitc tkoicsand who were our 
enemies, and helped to shed the blood of our fathers. Of course nil the ene- 
mies a^j-ainst which \vc contended, were foreigners only Monlgomery, cease- 
lessly lauded by the Irish in this country, did little or nothing essentially im- 
portant to our country, as his life shows. His attack" upon (Juebec was with- 
out orders from his ouperior oliicer, and was, undoubtedly, a rasii. misguided, 
and consequently, f.ital act, and what is more, it sacrificed the whole of our 
own coiiit/nimen -who were w'nh him in that hopeless attack. Now what else 
than this iatal thing did he do for America ? And hid he done anything, 
would it have compensated for the American lives he sacrificed on that occa- 
sion ? And (()/(// was he friendly to our country at alii Why, he married an 
jlmcriraii lady, with a princely fortune ! 

The French, to whom we owe some courtesy, arriveJ here after we ourselves 
had fought all the battles on which our destiny depended ; and it has been well 
said, " they never thought of our independence, but only of the question whether 
we should belong to the English or themselves?" Their subsequent desire 
to m ike war upon us, proves this. And, further, the whole of our debt of 
gratitude was paid dearly in dollars and cents, and that also of other nations, 
long belbrc our national debt incurred by the revolution was paid. Besides, 
our trade with them was more to their advantage than all the aid we ever re- 
ceived from them; an.l this paid them better than any other nation ever did. 

The appointment of foreigners to office, early e.xcited the fears of our coun- 
trymen ; and, if it did so then, how much more should it now ? Washington, in a 
letter to Mr. ^lorris, says, " this is a subject of great importance to the well-being 
of the United States. The lavish manner in which rank has hitherto been be- 
stowed upon them, will certainly be productive of the evils — either to make us 
despicable in the eyes of Europe, or to become a means of pouring tlum in upon 
us like a torretU, and adding to our present burthen!" He says, also, that our 
countrymen of merit " will not sidimit much, if any longer, to the unnatural promotion 
of men over them, who have nothing more than a little plausibility, wibouiuled pride 
ami ambition," etc. After speaking of their character &c., he (juestions 
"whether it is consistent with justice or prudence, to promote those mili- 
tary fortune-hunters at the hazard of ysur army T And further, '"they are men 
of great ambition who H<otUl sairifire everything to promote their own personal 
glory, or arc meiv spies! ivho aiv sent here to obtain a more thorough cnnwleilge of 
our situation and our rirrunistanrcs, in the execution of which I am persuaded 
some of them are faithfid emissaries," etc. He then particularizes two or 
three, and concludes by saying, " / do most devoutly wish that wc had not a 
foreigner among its, except the Marquis Lafayette, 7cJio acts upon very different 
principles from those which govern the rest!'' so much for the foreign oilice- 
holders and revolutionary services about which foreigners are eternally 
boasting in this country. 

It is worthy of remark, in this connection, that although Gen. Green was 
the idol of his army, a cons]iiracy was gotten up in it, and a correspondence 
held with the British to deliver him up. It was detected; the ringleader was 
shot, and twelve of hi.s associates deserted; but "among the conspirators not 
one native ^imeriran was implicated!'' Such were " the foreigners of the Revo- 
lution." 

Well has a very distinguished U. S. Senator said, " But the member from 
Penn. has alluded euloL'^istically to fbieigncrs. Does he mean to compare De 
Kalh, Steuben. Lafayette and Pulaski with Ih^ hordes of foreign paupers that are 
comlan'ly flooding our shores. There were other foreigners who mingled in our 
revolutionary strug:!;le. — but on the other side! — Hessians P' etc. 

In relation to foreii^ners holding offices over us, it may be asked why it was 
that the iVam'^rj of th? Constitution precluded them from becomi-ig Presidents 
of the United States, and since that, by a salutary amendment, from becoming 
Vice Presidents '< Now, if it was right to e.cclade them from these offices, why is n 



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trfong to cxclufff than from other Ojffias ? The leascMw are the same in all ofHcc!4, 
AVhy then draw the distinction ? Either it is wrong in Iht' one case, or it is 
right in all rases / There is no avoiding this conclusion. Tlie Constitution 
should he altered to admit them to be Presidents, or it should be altered to 
prevent them from holdijig any national office. But it should not be forgotten 
that a forcignn- may heroine the Prcxideni of the UnihJ Stvics. notwithstanding the 
provisions of the Constitution to prevent such a calamity. The Speaker of 
the House of Kepresentatives, it will be seen, takes the ))lace and discharges 
the hiu:h duties of President, in case of the death or disciuaJitication of the 
President and Vice President. Hence Levy, an alien, or Owen, an English- 
man, or any other foreigner now of that body, may become President of the 
United Stales. 

But. taking the United Slates and State Constitutions as they are, they evi- 
dently and wisely contemplate that, Native Americans being alone qualified 
to make our laws and administer our government, they alone should be ap- 
pointed to office. Common sense, common justice and common safety justify 
and approve this pro\isioti. Depend upon i1, however, an effort will be made, 
so soon as foreigners feel themseh es strong enough, to blot out from that sacred 
instrument the salutary, the saving provision which prevents them from being 
Presidents of the United States, the wisdom and caution of our fathers to the 
contrary notwithstanding. These remarks equally ajiply to the exclusion of 
foreigners from becoming Governors of some of the States, as provided by 
their Constitutions. 

Foreign influence is seriously manifested by the innumerable medical and 
other quacks, who throng our country. Many of the most ignorant and kna- 
A'ish fellows come here, and by means of the )nost shameful arts and shameless 
assurances, the parade of a few foreign and technical names with falsehood 
and puffing, succeed in humbugging our citizens most outVageously. E.xam- 
ples are innumerable. Who has not heard of the '• Fire King," who could not 
Avrite his own name^ AVe have heard him unblushingly boast of cases of de- 
ception disgusting enough, one would thii\k. to sicken evcrj- .Imcrimn of 
foreign quacks of any kind ; and yet he paraded the title of >I. J)., and iictnally 
granted the title to others for S 25 each ! The " Pill Man" has made hundreds of 
thousands of dollars out of Aniericans, by the simple composition which a child 
may make. Being a mere adventurer, and out of employ here as a laborer, he 
was told one day by a foreign crony, 'to humbug the damned Yankees;'" 
he did so, and made liis fortune,- with the title of M. D. We have innumerable 
cases before us, of this kind, in this city. Another was an hostler, and came 
to this countiy, like tens of thousands of others, to "seek his fortune." He 
contrived to l)e a military aid while yet an alien; and declaring himself n siir- 
geow, " set up in the eye business," and made a fortune also. But we cannot 
begin to particularize among tliese foreign quacks, nor can we enumerate the 
evils they have inflicted on suffering humanity, or sufficiently condemn their , 
impositions on Americans. The country is literally flooded with foreign em- • 

! lyrics and qur.cks, knowing that Americans foolishly regard things foreign, 
lowever worthless or pernicious; as possessing sujierlative merit. Hence 
Americans themselves assimie, ofienlimes, some foreign name i^r title for the 
sake of gulling their countrymen the more readily. How long beft)re our 
countrymen will have done with these foreign meJical knave,*, and humbugs, 
and their nostrums ? Advertising is a substitute with them for merit: and 
Ihi.s, it is seen, they use in ixlinBo. AVithSlOOO for advertising and G cents 
for medicine, one of these quacks has said he would make a fortune out of the 
Yankees. 

Tlie prejudices and exclusivene.ss of foreigners are manifested in their de- 
manding to have their children taught in tbeir own peculiar interest.s, habits, 
and even in their own forcif^n lani^ungrs, and that, too, at the exjiense of Ameri- 
cans. In this audacious dematnl, they find some political demagogues suffi- 
ciently slavish and anti-American to support Ihem. Such, we need not say, 
are traitors, l)Oth to our own countrymen and to foreigners lliemselves. They 
combine with foreigner.-^ to preserve all their foreign feelings and interests, and 
to prevent them from being Americans. One of these intereated and political 



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deiTJagotTaes may boast of having been, by some nnaccouhtable mal-fottune, 
the Executive of this State, tlioiigh he will find in this no excuse for his nar- 
row, selfish, anti-American and emphatically small views. He and they have 
already justly sunk into their natural and merited littleness and contempt with 
a virtuous and patriotic people. Thus to perpetuate foreign distinctions and 
to hedge foreigners in, around and out of the sympathies of the American, 
people, is to build up a polyglot Republic and babelize our country. None but 
foreigners and such demagogues would do this. 

How admirably consistint is this gubernatorial demagogue, this co-lahorer with 
foreign priests in the destruction of ourpublic schools and all principles of .^m«r- 
ican education ! Hear him in his inaugural message ! "/^ is indeed by their labor, 
and 6y that only, that foreigners render any service to the United States : and it is the 
duty, as it is the just prerogative, of the .'lmeri( an people to confine them to this, their only 
proper vocation in our country ! " This language, fellov.--citizens of New York City 
and State, was well enough spoken by \Vm. H. Sewanl then, perhaps when he 
■wanted -the countenance and votes of Americans and honorable men, and when 
he might have been less corrupt, withal. But what does he say, and what 
is he doing now ; — Wandering and haranguing the Irish throughout this 
State. Those closetings with, and promises from Roman priests, too, have , 
not been obliterated from our memory, though they may have been from 
his and that of his infin schetts. This same political demagogue compares 
the heartless agitatorof Ireland, and bilterenemy of America, to our own great 
Washington! — '• the Washington of Ireland !" kc. Compare the acts of this 
fellow with those of Washington ! But the comparison is in keeping with 
the author of the " letter of Repealers to O'Connell," Win. H Seu-ard ; whom 
the Irish flatter, because his mother was Irish ! Oh ! how much better than if 
he had been born of American parents ! The language of a distinguished 
State Senator on the Registry law, is more comistcnt at least. '' Most of them 
are paupers, strangers, and sojourners, * * * who contribute not one cent to the 
maintenance of the government, and are not found, save on the day of elec- 
tion," &c. "They swear falsely with perfect impunity, as respects punishment 
in this world, and, according to whose faith, perhaps, the price of a day's 
labor gives them absolute security for the next." 

Such demagogues have declared openly before the greedy foreign aspirants 
for power that '\foreigiKrs are more entitled to the rights of suffrage than native 
Americans." Such inl'amous doctrines are designed to sink Americans to the 
condition oi foreign slaves, and to urge them to ride over us rough-shotl. It 
encourages the masses to pass resolutions " denouncing any associations in 
which none but native born citizens are recognized,"' and it emboldens foreign- 
ers in the continuance of tlieir own innumerable associations and armed bands, 
in which none but fonignvrs are recognized! The demagogue from another 
county of this State, who, in Congress, brought in a bill to naturalize foreign- 
ers in two years, that he might secure the votes of refugees, and felons from 
Canada, to retain him in place, showed the same foreign Hand. He who, to 
secure the mayoralty of Detroit, became " the friend and Pitcher "' of the Irish, 
and President of their Repeal assoriatiou, is another of these political dema- 
gogues. Out of this, the Irish made capital in this city, by threatening the 
Democratic party that they would be served in like manner if they did not 
give them olfice, and thereby " cmWe ^/«(> gratitude towards usl^' (See Free- 
man's Journal.) 

The petty demagogue, too, who to earn Irish votes for his father as Presi- 
dent of the United State*, (a President, who, by proclamation, sent out to all 
Europe for " whomsoever he may meet to help him inaintain our government and 
laws,") /owgrtiscrf himself, presided at meetings and conventions, and became 
president himself of " Irish repealers," &c., is another of the mess of '' small po- 
/a/oc " demagogues. As in Ireland, they stimulate the repealers to riots, and 
also to enact at their conventions the raising of large Irish armed forces here 
to proceed to fight the British government ! Other demagogues are unfortu- 
nately allowed to control the public press, and a large proportion of these in 
our cities, where tone is given to public sentiment, arc foreigners. Among 
these, and the most unblushing anti- American, is the editor of the Albany 



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i 

Journal. These foreign joianals and demagogues, among other slanders and I 
falsehoods, which they know to be such, say that the object of American '\ 
Republicans is to diifranchUe adopted citizens. Every one kuuws, however, ,| ii 
but the poor, ignorant, prejudiced loreigners, that our objects are t'iitirely/)ro3- 
pedive, and that we deprive neither the alien nor the adopted citizen of a single 
just right ; hut, on the contniiy, would add to their privileges and the real ad- 
vantages of those hereafter to come here. And shall such foreigners and polit- 
ical demagogues forbid us doing this? Some of these demagogues, loo, are 
now busy all over the country in addressing foreign bands and forcing into 
their already prejudiced minds every species of slander and falsehood — hug- 
ging them to their bosom, llatlering their vanity and love of power, their preju- 
dices and ignorance — to steal from them by such knavish tricks their voles 
at the ensuing election. Shame! 

Another demagogue and '-great beggar-man," O'Qmndl, by his ceaselessand 
noisy '• agitation "" is keeping alive foreignism in our land. He calls on '" his 
countrymen '" in America to arraign themselves against our institutions, and 
encourages them to break down our public schools and cast our Bible into 
the streets ! He has denounced Americans and their laws by the foule.st . 
curses and says, ''if, as t he poets say. there be in hell a depth still mo.-e profowul^', 
that depth would I reserve for the Jlmcricntis V And this is the "Beggar-man," 
who receives such large sums from the poor Irish in this country and else- 
where to the amount of S-'00,000 ! Well he may <7£-(/a?c, when thus liberally' 
fed. How would it do to send part of this b.ick to help pay for the support of I 
Iris pauper countrymen 1101161 for which Americans, whom he curses, arc so 
enormously taxed ? Another calls a meeting within the •■ cradle of American • 
liberty,"' Faneuil Hall, Boston, and there offers up reiterated shouts vvith '■ his 1 
countrymen," for tiie civil and political tyrant, the R>pc of Rome. Anotlier — 
Bishop Hughes of New York, a political as well as ecclesiastical demagogue, 
is engaged unceasingly in stirring up the spirit of national and religious preju- 
dices and constant agitation among his countrymen, and in arraying them 
politically and religiously, against our countiyinea and our institutions. He 
confesses that he holds in his hands the infuriated masses of madly bigoted 
foreigners who only wait his nod to '■ let slip the dogs of war" upon our de- 
fenceless native citizens ! 'I'hink of it. countrymen ! — A leading demagogue 
of the church and of the political arena, openly and shamelessly declares in 
our public papers, that during the late excitement it was by his mercy that he 
restrained an immense ibreign mob in our city from w reaking its deadly hate 
upon our native citizens ! This is a startling proof of the power of Ibreign 
demagogues in our midst ! Think well of this, we say, countrymen! Let it 
sink deep into your hearts ; and, if it does not stir you to timely defence, there 
is no hope tor you or your country t 

He, too, w as the man, who led on his foreign masses against your public 
schools and against the Bible! He now contends in the public papers that 
, the results of reading the Bible are the moral depravity and crimes of citizens, 
and argues from that its expulsion from your public schools. A public paper 
^ with a foreign editor too, justly asks, in view of his public discussions against 
our citizens and our schools, his egotism and slander, "what it all has to do 
with the Bishop's share in originating and fomenting that accursed spirit of 
religious animosity which produced such terrihle results in Philadelphia!" 
" His is the spirit," continues the writer, "which established the Inquisition and 
lighted up tlie flames of persecution." This demagogue hypocritically gave \ 
out as an apology for his late discussions that his life had been threatened, and 
availed himself of the occasion to inflict upon the public numberless columns 
of foreignism, bigotry, and slander; when, lo! it turned out that his epistolary j 
apology was a humhue; , a Jesuitical artifice, to excite sympathy, prejudice, and t 
ill-blood. But enough ol this demagogue for the present. The I'ope of Ivome, , 
too, is a demagogue of the first water. He is indeed the prince of demagogues, 
the universal demagogue, and he now actively plays his part in our country j 
Hia late bull against our countr}men, our institutions, our Bible and mission. ' 
ary societies, is the perlVrtion of deuiagoguism. Let it be read by everj- > 
Ainehcan, though he may as well have spared his curses. ] 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF FOREIGN INFLUENCE. 71 

There are many sucli professedly democratic demagogues who clamorously 
contend, in tho eare of forcii;ners, and for polilical purposes we know, that all 
immigrants, paupers, criminals, and what not, " should vote the moment they 
set foot on our soil," and that they are " better American citizens, because they 
come here from choice, whereas native citizens were born here of «ccpssj/y/" 
Monstrous doctrine ! Suppose this principle to be carried out by foreignera 
with these demagogues themselves, in all their business and social relations? 
How would they like Xhe prar.lical application of such doctrines in their liouses 
and families, olHces and old business arrangements'? One of these ''better 
Americans" fresh I'rom the land of bogs, comes to the homestead, left to one of 
these new-light philosophers by his father, and on which- he and his family have 
long l)een comfortably settled, and says, " misthrer, I am jist after taking pos- 
session of all yer grounds and buildings, hereabouts ; so oust yer woman and 
childers in a divil of a bit, or I'll tip yer out with a tap of me shelelah. I'm a 
'better' man than yerself, ye sees, and has a 'belter' right o' the premeses." 
Of coune, he will vacate at once. Perhaps his strange benevolent friend may 
want only to share in the charge and profits of the homestead, and ol coiirse he 
must comply. At first he may invite his strange friend to a seat at his table and 
its bounties ; but this does not suit the bog-man ; he must control his friend's 
household, and claim, as he is the " better" man, to sit at the head of his 
table, and have other things his own way. This might be applied to all busi- 
ness operations ; but, as "examples are odious," we leave Uie pkilosophy of the 
doctrine as well as its application to those who propound or believe it. Such 
demagogues say that such better Americans as these " are of a class" of which, 
in truth, tve statul much in need ! Do we, indeed ? 

A writer justly says, '• foreigners think this their own country as soon as they 
put their foot on the Islancf of Manhattan, and those whom they find here 
help them to keep up this feeling." But as to what foreigners think, we might 
say with a distinguished patriot and President of the United States, '• I rely 
upon the good opinion of my countrymen, and care nothing for the opinion of 
those who come hither, 3,000 miles across the water." 

The foreign papers established in this country, and edited of course by 
foreigners, take strong grounds against our national policy, as well as native 
citizens. They boast of being foreign in principle and practice. One of the 
largest and most popular among foreigners (The Albion), has for its rnotto 
" Emigrants hidecd change their places, hut not their sentiments and feelings !" Now, 
this is the naked truth. They nhow it, and fearlessly say it ; but it would seem 
ditficult to convince some Americans of the truth, though thus told it. Yes, 
this is the undying foreign motto, nailed at the masthead and boldly sailed 
under in our midst. Its editor is an nZicn, says the Courier and Enquirer, and 
" the Jlbioji is the best foreign paper." But this compliment was gratuitous, it 
shows its foreign character as well by its practice as by its motto, blazoned 
on its front. It is true that " though immigrants have changed their places, thev 
still are foreigners in " their sentiments and feelings," but it is not^inos. Though 
they vote away our rights, or become our office-holders and law-givers, " they 
have not changed their sentiments and feelings," and, as the Courier says, they 
"maintain a manly loyalty to their native sovereign!" \Vould John Bull thus 
compliment an Jlmerican Republican paper in London ? But the motto is in 
keeping with its practice, sentiments and feelings, and we wish jlntericans not 
to forget it ; for, being true, it is worth remembering. 

The foreign papers here, too. are constantly dealing out their slanders and 
curses against us and our institutions, and yet they are obtaining their sup- 
port among us, and are enjoying the advantages and privileges of our laws. 
■' The Courrierdes Etats-Unis, a paper published in New York" says the Messen- 
ger, a southern paper, " is continually speaking disparagingly of the United 
States, condemning in toto everything as regards our moral, social and politi- 
cal relations, and yet it is fattening on the bounty yielded by our liberality. 
It is a crying shame, and we hope the eyes of the people will be opened to a 
sense of their degradation." For all this, however, the foreign editor has re- 
ceived " the Cross of the Legion of Honor" from his Royal Master, the King 
of France ! Such is the jmy for traducing our country whilst feasting upon 
wour bounty ! 



72 CIVIL POWER AND POLITICAL ACTS OF rOPERY. 

The American Advocate stated some time since, that there were no l^ss 
than ninchcii papers in this city owned or conducted by aliens or recently 
adopted citizens, and thai most oV the reporters of these papers are of the same 
class. The chief of the above are devoted to foreign interests, and many are in 
foreign languages. These dictate to us the nature and spirit of our institu- 
tions, and otir duty in relation to them. What must be your reflections, coun- 
trymen, in view ol these facts ? 

The French paper in this city, advertised some time since for foreign officers 
and soldiers /o/o«7- army ; holdmgout promises of promotion, etc. This'paper 
also, like its foreign colemporaries in this city, has shamelessly abused native 
citizens, and called loi^dly upon his French countrymen to preser\'e themselves 
distinct from Americans, and to arouse and assert thtir rights! 

The German paper in this city is continually calling upon the Germans to 
maintain their distinct character, and their " political importance," and also in 
calling meetings of Germans, "/or tlie purpose ofdcrisiug nuans best calculated to 
oppose the iiitriguts of the Naiife American party .'" 

One of these foreign editors, and the most abusive, fought against us in the 
British army, during the last war, yet he has been made a field officer in our 
city military, and he has obtained the admission of one of his foreign sons to a 
cadetship at West Point, and another as midshipman in our navy, over the 
heads, too, of himdreds of our sons, and some we know, of Revolutionary sires, 
long applying for the appointments, at the time. If this is not a disgrace, we 
know not what is; but it is a proof that foreigners are acknowledged to have 
claims superior to Americans. Shame ! shame ! Yes, foreign presses, their 
editors and advocates, can flourish here, but a native American press may be 
burned to the ground without a word or feeling of regret, and even by a for- 
eign incendiary, as that at Washington. Others, too, may receive threats of vio- 
lence, but it is all right, some think, if not a foreign press. The Potomac Ad- 
vocate, on commencing the support of American principles, was threatened by 
foreigners in the neighborhood with destruction. At New Orleans, an Ame- 
lican proposed publishing a paper to be devoted to our principles; but a num- 
ber of foreigners in that city, combined to destroy it ; and they threatened the 
proprietor, if he should dare to do it; he was therefore deterred, through fear, 
from establishing his paper! 

Party presses quarrel with those of another party, and with one another, in 
their slavish struggle to get first and lowest at the feet of foreigners, and then 
to crawl like craven and cowardly dogs, to their whims and prejudices. The 
New York Tribune and Plebeian are examples of political slavery to foreign 
influence. It may be said of them, and many political leaders, with Sterne, 
" See what bargaining, intriguing, and shifting, he has been content to go 
through, merely to be thought a man of fair dealing — two grains of honesty 
would have saved him all the trouble ; but, alas, he ha<l them not !" 

Shame on such Americans ! " With one or two exceptions,' says a Bos- 
ton paper, " the press of New York is as much under Knglish influence, as the 
press of London !" Several of these are so slavish in their anti-Aniericanism, 
that they have refused advertisements respecting American meetings, even 
after nceiving pay for them, which //iq/ AoW fo this day. The Courier is an 
example. Others published forged letters, knowing them to be such, for the 
purpose of destroying the American party ! 

CIVIL POWER AND POLITICAL CIIARACTKR AND ACTS OF 

POPERY. 

On this subiect we had stated facts at some length, but we are compelled 
to omit the chief part of them on account of room. We cannot avoid saying, 
however, that it is llie most important subject which can possibly interest 
the attention of our countrymen ; for it is a fainentahle fact that a large por- 
tion of them are fatally deceived in regard to it. In what little we shall now 
say on this subject, we shall liave nothing to do with popery or Catholicism, a.s a 
peculiar iiio<lo of worship, or as a religious cn'ed, faith, or independent of its civil 
or political claims and acts, as that belongs to the theological <Uscussionof th« 



CIVIL rO-WER A-SD POLITICAL ACT!> OF POPERV. 73 

snbjcol; bvtt we should not he, wo will not be, dpternHl by artful and designing' 
men, from defendins; our civil institutions, because it is their interest to shield 
their civil and political acts and those of their church behind their profes!*edly 
relifiiious faith. 

Men are oftentimes obliged to speak of things which, but for their connec- 
tion with other subjects, tliey would never discuss or allude to. The profes- 
Bion of any particular creed or rule of religious faith, unconnected with civil 
matters or the rights and interests of those diffi-ring in opinion therefrom, has 
justly been regarded as a right which no one in this '-ountry is justified in dis- 
turbing or destroying. We agree, in conformity with the declaration thus 
generally expressed, that every man should be allowed "to worship God ac- 
cording to the dictates of his own conscience," or, in other words, as he pleases. 
But there is a law, both of nature and of our country, providing that the dic- 
tates of no man's conscience shall interfere with, disturb, or destroy the opi- 
nions and interests of others ; and this is paramount to all other laws or 
considerations, on this subject. If the worship of Crod according to the dic- 
tates of a man's conscience be to deprive another of his rights, his happiness, 
his property, or his life, then he is to be restrained and punished for a violation 
of justice and the law. The civil power is paramount, under this and &]$* 
other gooii governments, to tlie ecclesiastical power ; and the latter shouM 
never interfere with the rights and privileges derived from the former, but. 
should ever maintain and defend them. 

Our fathers never contemplated, when they framed the Constitution of the 
United States, that there would be those establishing themselves among us 
whose rule of religious faith and practice would prove inimical or opposed 
to the laws of the land. If they had any such in view, they believed their 
own obvious interests in this land of freedom, would deter them from mani- 
festing their opposition ; or they supposed that their numbers would be com- 
paratively hmall, and that they would be prevented from carrj-ing out their 
faith and opinions into practice. The sequel will show, however, whether 
they were right or wrong in their philanthropic views and feelings on this 
subject. They were especially careful to embody perfect freedom of religious 
opinion and modes of worship, in direct contradistinction to the illiberal creed 
and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, by which they had been so long 
and so murderously persecuted, and to escape which they had fled to this coun- 
try. The opinions of the devotees of this Church being, that the ecclesias- 
tical authority of their Church, and its supreme /orri§:)» head, is pai-amount to 
all government, all nations, rights, powers and interests, in every part of the 
earth, they are necessarily opposed to the spirit of our laws, and to the con- 
stitut'ion itself; and whenever they have openly manifested their opinions on 
matters of state, it has been in direct hostility to "our institutions. " Difference 
of opinion," says Jefferson, " is to be tolerated where reason is left free to com- 
bat it." But where do we fmd reason '• left free" with the mass imder Romish 
priestly jniiucDce ? I« it in Italy, Austria, Spain, Portugal, the East Indies, 
Mexico ! and is it any more " free" with such here than in any one oi those 
countries i 

That the Roman Catholic Church in this country professes, in conformity 
with the dictates and dogmas of its head, to be the •' Mother Church of the 
world;" and that, as a primary principle of its " unalterable faith," it has the 
privilege and authority, both from God and his professed representative, the 
Pope, " to exorcise temporal aud spiritual power,' no candid and intelligent 
American will deny. This power has been claimed from near the beginning 
of this Church to the present time, under all circumstances and in all places ; 
and it has uniformly been exercised when and wherever its physical power has 
been equal to its designs, in the most tyrannical and barbarous manner. Its 
assumed rights and authority, in this respect, has never been annulled or re- 
laxed in this countiy, any more than it has in any other countiy. But let us 
notice a few farts, as to the claims and the exercise of temporal power by this 
Church, and then let every candid American think and act for himself. 

It should be understood distinctly that this church is essentially politico-ec- 
clesiastical. The Pope is a. temporal soiropj, claiming a power paramount to all 



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kings and governments of the earth, by which he can nullify all their decrees! 
and absolve all tht^ir subjects fronri allegiance. Pope Sixtus V. says against 
King Henry, " the authority given to St i'cter and his successors, excels all tlie\ 
jriowers of earthly kiv^s and jji-'nues ; it passes wicontroUable sentence upon uU" &c. 
He then says, ''Jiv deprive them and their posterity of their dominions and] 
kingdoms, absolveth their subjects from their oath of allegiance, and forbideth 
them to pay any allegiance to them" &:c., '• and do charge and forbid all and 
every of them that they do not nan' to obey them, or any of their admonitions, 
laws and conmiaiuls !" What would be thought of a Protesant Bishop, or Sy- 
nod, were he or it to do this ? Pope Pius V. says, in his Bull against Kliza- 
beth, he "deprives her of her pretended right to the Kingdom, and absolves all 
the nobles subjects and people, and whoever else have sworn to her, from their 
oath and all duty whatsoever" &c , &c. I'ope Innocent HI says of his Church 
'■ She hath given me the mitre in token of things spiritual ; the crown in token 
of things tem}M}ral\ the mitre for the priesthood and the crown for the king- 
dom" Sec. " I cnjny alone (he plenitude of power, that others may svy of me, nexi 
to Gof/, and OH/ of his fv.huss ve have received \'' In conformity with the /fm;)<>ra2 
power, ever maintained by the popes, they have deposed or excommunicated 
^^ixty one kings, queens and emperors ; and Some of these they have required to 
perform the most menial services, and were even whipped upon their bare 
backs, as with King John of England. This is not temporal power is it? His 
church has issued its bulls, too, against the United States ; and it will execute 
its purposes in a similar manner, so soon as it has the power; for it declares 
itself " unchangeable"' and " infallible^' It cannot, it never has, it never will be 
otherwise; though the Ronian priests may make fools of some in this 
country by saying that poper)- " is changed" here, &c. Their Bishops in this 
country now claim all the Pvoman Church property here for the Pope, and are 
now quarrelling with some of his people v ho have lately dared to dispute his 
temporal authority in America. This is not temporal power either, we suppose I 
The late Catholic political election in this city, to force us to give them our 
school fund and to control our j)ublic schools, is not temporal they would make 
U.S believe The present pope says, "nor can we aua^ur more conaoling conse- 
quences to rclipim and to government from the zeal of some to separate the church 
from the utate! and to burst the bonds which unite the Priesthood to the Em- 

Eire, for it is clear that this vnion is dreaded by tfie profane lovers of liberty ! only 
ecause it has nci-er failed to confer prosperity e»t both.'' This, too, is not temporal. 
The whole church, temporal and sj)iritual, in this country acknowledges the 
supreme authority, claimed by its foreign potentate, who has ever declared 
himself the ceaseless enemy of our institutions, and formally denounced and 
invoked the curses of Heaven upon them ; he who claims to be, and is styled 
by his adherents "vicegerent of God." " Supreme over all mortals," "over all 
emperors, kings, princes, potentates and people," "the divinely appointed dis- 
penser of spiritual and temporal jnvmshmcnts'' &c. — " from him lies no appeal" 
" he is responsible to no one on earth !' " he is judged of ?io one but God," etc. Is 
this Republicanism ? Is it " essentially democratic !'' as Bishop Hughes says the 
Roman Church is, and are the subjects of the Pope in this country ^' den\ccrati" 
as they profess to be ? It may be so by " Divine right" as claimed by the pope 
and his priests, but not by .American rights! The pope says further that God 
''grants to Aim atone the primacy of jurisdiction and the pleni/iKlv of povper.'* 
And the tyrant of Austria combined with him in the "//o/y alliance" 'the Union 
of Christian Princes" in the " blessed St. Leopold Foundation" " to promote the 
grraJrr artimly of Catholic missions in the Lhiited States" says, " as long as I live I 
will oppose a u-dl nf iron to the progress of lihaal opinions." Is this the " liber- 
aliiy" which Roman Catholics claim so loudly in this country 1 If so, their 
priests are busy in carrying it out. It is the liberality of the creed which de- 
clares that ■' all hrrrtirt ( Protestants) shatl be delivered over to the civil magistrate to 
be Intmtd!' 'i hid creed, as we have said, is " infallible. ' The chief Cardinal 
oiinfoUibU authority in these matters, says of it, " the tvhole of our fa^Xh rests upon 
one xndwi.rihle article, namely, the infaUible nuthonty of the Churcn; the moment 
therefore that we give up any jtart vhaiever the whole falls ; for what admits not. 
of being </in</«y. must eviienlly stand entire, or fall ctUirc!" Believing thus ia 



CIVIL POWER AND POLITICAL ACTS OF POPERY. 75 

the '■ unchanj^eable Church" and their " Lonl Gcxl" the Pope, and that he and 
his sworn priests " can do no vvron;^," are no ttlitir subjects prepared to exe- 
cute any of their commands '? Here hes the danger, and from tllis sprinjj the 
e\ ils to whicli wo have alluded, under a free goverumenL This may be Tllua 
trated by a;i example. The Lady sxpciior of the Convent of Cbarlestown said, 
as proved in Court, ''the Right Kcverend Bishop had twcidy thousand brave 
Irishmen under his control! who would tear doivn the houses of Mr. Cutter apd 
others, and that tlie Select men of Charlestowa might read the riot act till they 
tvere hoarse, anil it would be of no use .'" The outrages in Philadelphia are of the 
same character, and were dictated by the same feelings and authority. Pope 
Pius VII., says " the free toleration of any oilier worshippers isncn-cr to be admitted^ 
3.ih\ it is conJrar/ to the Common Councils a'tul the Roman Religion!" The Court 
of Romt! announced, as aninfaUibk article of faith " Pontificis auctoritas major 
est quam Scriptura" — ''the authority of the Fope is supcnor to that of the Holy 
Scriptures!" Gregory VIII. proclaimed ''no Chapter, no book is held to be 
canonical without the authority of the Roman Pontilf!" Pope Nicholas 
IJromulgated, in Latin, " the Old and New Testament should be acknowledged, 
because his the judgment of Pope Innocent III., and by his authority they 
are received !" Pope Boniface VTII. enacted this Canon. '• We declare, say 
and pronounce it to be of necessity to salvation for cvcri/ human creature to be 
subject to the Roman Fon'.iff!" Leo X decreed in the Council of Trent '^ Jill 
powci- in Heaven and earth ?'s i^ivm to the Pope and consequently the civil jwwers is 
subject to the Papal jurisdiction!" 

As to the civil authority claimed by the Pope, the following curse speaks for 
itself. It is one of the forms pronounced against all who reject his authority. 
" I declare him or her, father or mother, brother or sister, son or daughter, 
husband or wife, uticle or aunt, nephew or neice, kinsman or kinswoman, 
master or mistress, and all others, nearest and dearest, relations or acquaintances 
whatsoever, who do. or shall hold ecclesiastical or civil authority above or 
contrary to the authority of the mother church, or who shall obey any of her opposers 
or enemies — to be accursed!'' 

Foreign bishops and priests among us act upon the creed of their church 
and their oath to the Pope of Rome, viz : '• 2b tlu utmost of my power will I ob- 
serve the Pope's commands, and I will ma/cc others obsenr them, B.nd I will impugn 
and perseaiie all Iin-etics VLud all rcWs (Protestants) io my lord the Pope!" "A 
priest," says Gregory IX., '" cannot be forced to give testimony before a secular 
judge." " The rebellion of priests is not treason^ for they are iwt subject to the civil 
government." " The spiritual power must ndc the temporal by all means and expedi- 
en^s,when necessary." " A common priest is as much better than a king as a man 
is better than a beast ; nay, so much does a priest e.xcel a king (or chief magis- 
trate) that he who prefers a king to a priest does prefer the creature to the 
Creator!" " They who are bound by contracts, or in any other manner, to pay 
or assign anything to these heretics, are not henceforth obliged to do so, nor can 
they in any way be compelled to do it." " Be it known to all who are under 
the dominion of heretics, that they are set free from fidelity and duty to them, 
all oaths solemn agrermoits and engagements to the contrary notwithstanding." Now, 
is this not temporal power ? Is it American doctrine ? is it democratic ? Is 
it not rank treason, and are not all who acknowledge it traitors ? 

The Pope expressly declares the liberty of opinion, the liberty of speech, 
the liberty of the press, and the liberty to read the Bible and other books, as 
cvrscs, and accordingly he curses them ! He says, 1st, " that absurd and aro- 
TKous doctrine or raving in favor and defence of liberty of conscience, for which 
most pestilaitial error the course is opened by that entire and wild liberty of opi- 
nion," &c. 2. " Hence arise the revolutions in the minds of men — hence this 
aggravated corruption of youth," etc. — " hence, in a word, that pest, of all others 
Tnost to be dreaded in a State, unbridled liberty of opinion, licentiousness of speech," 
&c. 3d. " Hither tends that icorst and never to be suffered, execrated and detested 
liberty of the press," &c. 4th. " We shudder, venerable brethren, at the sight of 
monstrous doctrines or rather portentous errors which crowd upon us in tht 
shape of numberless volumes and pamphlets," etc. This is the Roman Catholic 
doctrine of the nineteenth centurj', and of America ! How do you like it, ia- 
teiligent, independent and patriotic Americans 1 



76 CIVIL POWER AND POLITICAL ACTS OF POPERY. 

The Pope's lato bull against America and American associations shows 
what the political and spiritual tyiant would do with us if he could, and what 
he and his confederates are aiming to do by their associations and the millions 
of their ready instruments, so rapidly overrunnina; our country. He roars like 
a mad bull against our Protestant associations for dift'using liberty, Christian 
intelligence and the Bible among his slaves in Europe. Does he think a mo- 
ment, however, of his own far more extensive associations, with himself at 
their head, " for the greater activity of missions in America,' " for propagating 
the faith" and in sending his artful agents all over our country — whose j^aM is 
deadly hostile to our institutions, as he himself declares— does he think of 
these things, we say, when he roars so lustily against us and our associations? 
What a " holy,"yi(sf, and discriminating " Lord God"' he must be ! 

As a clincher to what wo have said respecting the Pope's temporal and spi- 
ritual claims in America, Bishop Hughes, or his org<m in this city, comes out 
and avows all the principles of the late Bull from the Vatican against our in- 
stitutions, and affirms that they are such as " the Church"' has always main- 
tained ! The Bull, among other things, prohibits the use of the Bible, and 
calls upon his vicegerents in this country to prevent the reading of our Bible. 
The Bishop, however, says their Bible may be read, " as the Pr>pc u)ulcrstaitd.t 
it!" And so he and his coadjutors said when battling against our public 
schools. They were then asked, it is stated, if they would be satisfied with 
the introduction of the ' Irish Spelling-book"' into our common schools ; to 
which they replied by saying that they would write to the Pope and would 
give an answer on receipt of his reply ! 

'•The thunder-bolt i.-? never seen till felt, 
And then it wounds beyond the reach of cure ; 
He not secure ! none .sooner are undone 
Than those wlioin eoiifidonce betrays to rest." 

"We abhor persecution for religious »r political opinions : hence we ojwose 
all foreign innovations opposed to the form and spirit of our institutions, (or it 
is a systematic persecution of our countrymen, who have estabUshed, and 
who are content to live under those institutions as they are, deeming them 
good enough for ourselves, and erjually so for foreigners — Roman Catholics or 
others; and if to oppose these innovations and this foreign opposition be, ia 
their vieio, persecution, so let it be. The semblance of truth and claims of 
catholicity should not deter us from the defence of our rights and privileges, 
whatever may be the garb they may assume. All history assures us that un- 
der its garb the most atrocious wrongs and butcheries have been committed 
that have ever blackened its pages : therefore beware, countrymen, of a foreign 
enemy under its specious forms and colors. We are not yet di^po'^ed to admit 
that we must allow foreigners to skulk behind their religion, or any hiding- 
place, from whence they may attack our institutions with impunity; — whence 
ihey may securely violate our laws, disturb the public peace, or shoot down 
our countrymen in our streets, without daring to open our mouths or breathe 
the source from whence they assail us. And who but a traitor to our country 
would furnish with arms or encourage a secret enemy to his deadly work, or 
restrain Americans from th<' defence of themselves and their deaiest interests 
against the shafts of a foe, skulking behind a masked-battery ? The bloody tra- 
gedy in Philail('lj)lua, as an illustration, has been turned against our country- 
men by .Jesuits and some interested politicians, to bring .\niericans at logger- 
heads, and to direct public attention from the slaughter of our peaceful coun- 
trymen by Irish Catholics to the destruction of a church by some boys, or, as 
has been suggested, by Jesuits than net res, so as to make a far greater amount of 
capital out of the circumstance! This certainly is in exact accordance with 
the known policy and i)ractices of .(esuits. Be this as it may, the American 
Republican jiarly of that city, it is well known, were the almost sole defend- 
er* of those buildings, and lis leailing members Uwk almost entire charge of 
them when threatened. But wliere were the Roman Catholics all this time ? 
Why did iu>i they assist the .Native Americans in protecting their churches^ 
This is strange, passing strange ; and it tends to confirm the su.spiciojis of the 
Jesuitical policy in endeavoring to change the i>:<uo of this tragedy. 



CIVJL in-)\VEK A:!D roLlTRAL ACTS OK POPERY. 77 

We know tlif rluuMctori^tic fnmluioss and uonerosily of our rounlrymen, 
and that in avoiJiiig the suspicion of persecution, even from u foroii;n enemy 
or party deniago;;ue.s, they run to the extreme of intiillerence or recklessness. 
"W'e know also thiit these characteristics are narrowly watched and used as 
pnares to entrap them. Otlier nations have fallen into tlie same pit. Be 
aroused then, countrymen, in season. The '• Holy Alliance of Christian 
Princes," whose declared ohjccts, in the '• Leopold Foundation," are "to pro- 
Tuote the greater activity of "Catholic missions in America !" assumes the ^rb 
of piety by which to accomplish their designs ; for, to invade us with threaten- 
in" armies, with banners aiul munitions of war, would be presumptuous and 
fuUlo. This tliey knoAV, and hence their armies are in the guise of Roman 
Catholics under the command of de\oted priests, all readily marshalled, as we 
have seen, by their tbreign leaders, and annually furnished, as we also know, 
with hundreds of thousands of dollars by this " Hob/ Alliance. But let any 
jind every American ask himself what occasion we liave for foreign Catholic 
missions ? Are we indeed so benighted and barbarous as to require siKh 
foreign missions ? Are we so far below the ignorant and wretched millions of 
■\ the slavish subjects of their " holy" tyrants as to require to be colonized by 

"-'them "to promote the s^rcater activity of Catholic missions'' among us? \\Tiat 

"•^say you, countrymen '. 

The most artful, accomplished and efficient agents of this concentrated 
breign power are the Order of Jesuits, revived in 1818. The United Stales is 
veirfilled with them. Bishoj) Hughes, and many of his collaborators in tliis 

\ t ty, are of this order. Some of his priests addressed '' a card"' through our 

\ political papers, when assailing our public schools, in which, after declaring 

\ thit the\' "' duly appren'atc Biithop Hi'ghcs' able and trittmjihant vindication of the 

lonmwn'school guestioii,'" they announce to the American people their '-ardent 

\I).\tIRAtriON OV TUK ILLUSTRIOUS OrDER OF JeSXITS, WHICH DEATH 

.'VLUNE i-iLL BE Ai'.LK TO EXTi N fi L' 1 SK IX OUR Eoso.Ms!" This is the greal- 
■st insull to an American and Christian public that can be conceived. This 
'Order,''\it is well known, was the curse of all Europe, until the civil powers 
tWtedly We to crush it. So destructive were their machinations to the peace 
alil safety rt" society, that they were repeatedly denounced and broken up by 
thVgovermiSints where they were plotting their infernal schemes. Even the 
i'ofi> himselrAvas forced to suppress them, so gross and fatal were their out- 

■^'dtholicisnVs a union of Church and State, de facto, professedly and practi- 
callv '• T/iff'hiich," in contbrmity with this, has come boldly into the po- 
litical ""Acld, iiylXf;ice of all its professions, OTp:amy.ri^ its political troops of 
foreigue.s, wiw iisdoreigu higii-priest and .lesuit at its head — and carried its ob- 
jects, too'. AiV isVot thi.s Church and Stale '. But \shal American journals 
bave had the IXriot^m, the independence, the moral courage to denounce it ? 
And have thevV in ;i body sold their votes to the political party bidding the 
greatest numbi\o" dollars? But we must not talk of such things: oh! no: 
it is '• illiberaliV ' '■ proscriplion,"' -intolerance," -persecution!" Strange 
times indeed, wl\fn n,r niouths must be thus shut and we are forbidden to 
speak of the e;n'''>pr)oliucal interests of our country: and that too under 
the fear or threolshi tnuhx violence, as in New York, Cincinnati, Cliarles- 
ton, Boston, rhilailelpt, ^.^^.^ These are temporal things, bear in mind, not 
spiiitual; s^a/r, notthul, . j^o//^,-,.^^^ ,^ot religious. And cannot the American 
people discriniinatc\bet\,,^ /io/iViVa? and spiritual matters? Have .lesuits so 
cloaked their acts a'nd de-.^^^^ .^j, ^|^,^^ jealous freemen cannot detect them 1 
Shall thev organize a Si'^^^'olitico-religious system over bur couiitrv. and we 
not know it i Or shall we -^^^ ^^^^ ^o j^,^„„. jj , 

The Pope and his satelUtj .^.^^^^^^ j^j^^^ -exult," we are told, in the success 
of their efforts in the L nitea . ,^,^ ^y^j^ ^y^^ ^j^^ „^.^^.^^ Cuvier— knowing the 
acts and dangers <^'', I'^'^^/y—'/^ss deep concern on learniuir this. Well also 
did a German ambassador at h^ ,^anifest similar feelim^s of surprise and 
regret in view of this success : <\^.^^^ ^^.^,^^^ truth did he exclaim. '^ They 
[Roman Catholics] will be Hamn.^^ nails— they will persecute or be penkv 
cvUeJ!" Yes, '-agitate! aS'^'^"« ' •,i,ate! ! !" is their de<lared motto: and 



7S CIVIL POWKR AND POLITICAL ACTS OF I'OPERY. 

w]v\X witn repeal, politics, mobs, liofs, etc^ how admirably Jo thny live up to 
:uid practise by it ! In nil tbesc they afl'ect to gain, and do gain, some advan- 
tage over our countrymen. 

Kifty-llireo yenrs ay:o there were but 26 Roman priests, I bishop and 15 
churches in the Unitel States. In 1789 there were ascertained to be 18,000 
Romm Catholics in the United States; in IH.'JO, r(0,i,OOU: in 1S33, SOO.OCO— aa 
increase in less thin three ycirs of ;100,000! in 1S4(), l.riOO.OOU; and in 18-U, 
'J,00:),0,10; with 17 sees, "JO bishops, 1000 priests, i:JOO churches and stations, 
21 theolo'jriral seminaries, 21 colleges. &c., 50 (omale convents, GO do. semina- 
ries 90 ch-xritable institutions (so called), 8S reli'^ious associations, with some 
800 sisters, 8cc. &c. In S'-otland there were I'orrnerly but a fe.w Homm Catho- 
lics ; now there ^vc^OfiO^ inthe rity of dasgow atone ! Tho sum remitted from 
the Continent for the use of this church in Great Britain was, some years 
since, 400,000 pounds, which was distributed by one person! The " O.xford 
Tracts." and other Roman Catholic movements there, are some of the results; 
all of which have an iinmcJiaie eiiect on this country. 

Thus, in England, Scotland, but moie especially in the United States, it has 
m-ide and is making extraordinary pro;i^rt;ss. The intimate connection be- . 
Iween Great Britain and this country renders this a fact of singular import- ' 
ance to us. In 40 years tliey have increased their chapels from liO to .OSO 1^ 
four-fifths of which are in England; and there are now in that island about; 
7.50 ecclesiastics, with 8 or 10 popish colleges and some GO seminaries ! 

Popery adapts itself, temporarily, to the genius of every people and the cii 
cumstances of every country, till its power becomes absolute; then, if tl 
people become sensible of their slavery and attempt to break tlie yoke upon 
their necks, they are forced, at the price of tortures, blood and death, to submit 
to their bondage. The opposition of the Pope to freedom, even of opinion^ 
was recently evinced by his calling to his aid 100,000 mercenary troops from 
Austria, the hot-bed of tyranny and despotism, to shoot down his suljecls for 
daring to ask for some relief from their oppression. Great numl)€rs of these 
being arrested, were shot dead in cold blood, by order of his HoHnesi! Whs. 
think you of this, Americans, and of the claims and designs of " His Hol- 
ness" to do the same thing here? 

An American writing from Rockland Count}', N. Y , says he las not b<en 
able to obtain a room in which to discuss American principles owing to the 
opposition of leading poiiliciaus, who give as a reason for refu-iing, that they 
are afraid of a riot being created by the Roman Catholics; md, by the Vy, 
there are a great many in this place. And he concludes by isking -of y^at 
value therefore is our rigAf, as Americans, to peaceably assen-ble .'" Let'<ivery 
American ask himself this question 

The murderous assault of a large l>ody of Irish Roman Catlolic^ upon the 
peaceful procession of American Republicans in Brooklyu. wih clubs, .stones 
wu\ fire-arms ! is probably so fresh in the minds of our countr men as to need 
no description of particulars ; but it was not less wanton aiyl )utrageous there 
than in Philadelphia, though less fatal. The large and o/l'Hy procession of 
American Republicans in this city, last spring, was in in/neiitaiy danger of 
being attacked in a yet more savage manner during thcij/mrch, by the same 
Ibreign horde, as we are told by the Papists and their B/ifii ihetnselves; the 
latter alludin:; to it as e-vciting the passions of that lioi/ '< the highest |)itch, 
and otilV reiiuiring 'five lines" from him to let the'y" '"the work of mur- 
der! This is indeed the "crisis," as tho Bishop sajp- Think well of this, 
>\mericans. Youhwe ni^ right to walk in proct-sjTi in tiie streets of New 
York. Philadelphia. Brooklyn, etc., or to hold peii'-y' ""-'itings. No! None 
l)ut the '• Kepalers." tlie '• I'aughballas," tho " St. j/'i'"'"';.'" ^'Jc, have any such 
lilwrty in this countr/ ! And when, as in the stiv^ '^^ Cincinnati, sonii- time 
fiince, your judges do not tike oil' their hats tii/""' pii'ce«:<i<)ns, they will be 
knockt'd oir, and yourselves knocked down, ani^"''' 'P^ beaton to death on tho 
spot ! £ 

HcTr the words of this foreign demagoguy* ficcrdotal robes, Ihis boasting 
champion of pcice and piety, and let thcniiF'^' '" f''*-' f^ai.s of every ./I neriian 
throiiij'iOMt tlie |:uid : '/(/) rl<iim the mciJFf ^^ *"^ rreventnl in t/iii riti/ the 
JeiirfiU rrisi* ichirhhas Irft itg rneluttclioly ffi^'^'"^°'^"^'' I" I I'niladelphia). VVith 



CIVIL POWER AND POLITICAL ACTS OF POPERY. 79 

such poucrs over the myrmidons of a foreign tcmpora! and spiritual tj-rant, 
■vvho^jc aiiliiority he wici is in tliis country by commission, there is no reason /'or 
woacltriiiic why they were swayed in abji^ct obedience to his jiolitical man- 
dates at Carrol Hall ; why, at his nod, they rally at the polls and prostitute 
the hi:;h privileges bestowed upon them to their reli.i^oiis prejudices and the 
e.xaU;ilion of their own foreign countrymen as rulers over us. No wonder 
why he boasts of holdin.'^ in abeyance and dircclin<r at pleasure their mur- 
derous foreign passions, the torch of the incendiary, and the '"two-edged 
glaive" of the assassin! No wonder that "77tH? lines from him lootdd have been 
suffidmt to have pro;b(/rJ the most fearful resiUlsf' 

The Irish Roma* Catholic •' Truthteller " (what a misnomer!) says the 
arguments of Nuti^ Americans are ''the tact of fanatics," of '' blood-gofcd 
harbariaiis!" &c. Another Papal organ says: "We must haste, the moments 
are precious. If tlie Protestant sects are beforehand with us, it v. ill be diffi- 
cult to destroy their injlitencc!'' kc. What do you think of this, countrj-men ? 
Their refusing to allow the bodies of the Benevolent American Order of Odd 
Fellows burial in their 'consecrated ground," by order of the Pope, shows 
their hate of everything and everj'body American. They have refused also 
to let the Bible be brought there ! A late paper says the Fourth Ward has 
been Hooded with handbills claiming the vote of the electors — that the ticket 
is lun as a '• Catholic Irish Ticket .''" &c. Another handbill, posted in all parts 
of he city at an election, says : '^ Cathelivs, aromc! Tfie time has comeT &c. 
.Another, circulated at an election in Brooklyn, had the Catholic cross upon it. 
Will "in hoc sigiio vinces!" — "in union is our strength!" — "Catholics, vote for 
Mr. Lott!"' &c. We have many other Roman Catholic political handbills 
\hich have been paraded through our city at elections, all grossly insulting; 
sVne headed " Catholic voters!" "' L-ishmcn, to your posts!" " Irishmen, arid all 
(jJholic rotcrs!"^kc , &c. And are not these, '' Church and State," civil and 
tekpoi-al '?— What mockery to deny it ! 

Not Ion* since we saw," said a " late paper," a Catholic paper having for 
its asignia \he ^Imcrican Eiigle represented as holding the Catholic Cross in one 
of iV talons\and the sacramental, chalice of the clmrch in the other ! Is not this 
anirtult'? Is^^t not the representative of church and -S^afc, of political and 
spirittal power? a desecration of our emblem of liberty ? Our own beloved 
natiorVl flag wa\ also desecrated and hung in the breeze at Brooklyn, not Ion"- 
smce, t^th the Ccti^Hr Cross ujxm it. Some of our school houses, it is said, are 
now surmounted ly the Catholic Cross 1 It has come to this ! 

Whtri did an Artpiican or Protestant body of people burst into a Roman 
CatholiL church,ist;iv]j,^ halloo, and insult the clergyman, and finally put out 
the lights. -xnd brbk \p the meeting, amid the screeches of defenceless women 
and children, as d\I Uu Roman Catholics at the Protestant Reformed church 
of Rev. Mr. BrowWee m this city, becait.^e the Rev. gentleman was obnoxious 
to their prejudices\ w^g i^is right, countrymen ? 

The Roman CaWc Douay Bible, and the Rhenish Testament printed 
under the directioA ,f the Romin Hierarchy of Ireland, the Archbishop of 
Dublin, and 300 ofU. most influential Prieets in ISIO, in commentin"- on 
Rev. c. 17, V. 0, says,|'ut' their blood (the blood of " heretics" or protestants) 
is not called the bloctt .- the saints, no more than the blood of ?/nVycs man- 
hitlers, and oiher mokfaci-s ; for the shedding of which by order of justice no 
common wrath shall ansor!" Conseqiiontly, if the protestants oppose the 
deminds of Roman t-aUrjcs^ ff^^^ /,;oo,, j.. accounted "no more than the 
blood of Mifycs, etc. Ih ..^ouU be good doctrine to introduce into our 
public schools t.irough poic^l votes ! Consequently the blood of the mil- 
lions of innocent victims dc^.y^^ ;„ Europe by Roman Catholics was the 



same as that of " thieves nruin^,,., „ ^,p ^ ^^^ ,^^ wonder tlie Pope, on 
heanng of the murder ol^^Ail protestants under Charles IX. '-marched 

for so great a bless- 
re fired, and Rome 



with his cardinals to the churc.,,„^i ^^^.^ ^^anks to God for so great a bless 
ing upon ;he See of home, n ,hat " the cannons wert 



•was illuminated to testify the pul, • ,m 



We suppose. howevPT, all Amen .^^ gj^^^,jj ^^ ^^^^C,^, ^^^ . 

oren their mouths in this free cc. f^^^^^ have just seen th 
with 7 children and one at her breast,- ' i ^„ ^^„tc.,Jr.i »« A^aiU 



1 not daie to 

that a woman 

is been sentenced to death on the scaf- 



so 



CIVIL rOWKK AND POLITICAL ACTS OF IX>rKKy 



fold in MiuU'ira, for saying that the Rornisih host is bread, ;\rvJ that ll»e Holy. 
Scrifilurcs forbid th<* worship of imagos. But, with all the horrid butcherips 
of tlie Roniish church before us, one of its organs here says — '• Persecution ia 
not eongenial to Catholics !" This is in keeping with tlio assertion 01 Bishop 
Hugijes — that ''tin Catholic church is ensenlialhj Dtmocralic!" "Wliat an insult to 
fonimoii sense and all history. 

Anotlier said, not long since, " the pilgrims'' (our fathers who fled from the 
])erseculions and massacre of these Roman Catholics), '"were a set of bigots, 
who left their country for their counlrys good!" How is tliis, Americans, 
think you it is true or false ? Still another says — 

" Wc (('atliolics) in the Republic ;;hall have the co-opcMtioy} of every friend 
in the provinces — from the continent ol' North Americd; siiall go up one day 
the voice of millions, demanding, in terms not to be mistaken or denied, justice 
to Ireland,"' or in other words, Roman Catholic rule ! T'lere is an important 
meaning in this. 

It is said that the first duty of an Irish immigrant on landing here, is t 
report himself to a priest, who from that moment never loses sight of hiiil. 
If he removes, lie is directed to another jiriest who then takes charge of hir«. 
Thus, when he becomes a citizen, his jiolitical influence is at the command of 
}iis priest, lie, too, with all other papists, is arranged in a group of 10, 10, 
and 100, for the purpose of taxation; each group having a collector or receiier 
who pays to the next in order, till the funds come to the Priest and Eisly>p.' 
We see someriiing of this at the collections of Roman Catholic workmei(On 
a building or a section of the ])ublic works, by a regular reipiisition fron lhe 
priest. If one proves refmclory, he is denied " tiie rights ol the altar," a^d i_ 
liable to excommunication, or the loss<)f his sonl. so he can g«!t no parddn '<" 
his sins from the priest. This.it is said, brings him to terms, and the p?* 
ment of arrears. Tiie women or ''helps." are similarly taxed. This sev-'e 
taxation, with the j)ardoning and purgatory tax, amounts to t vast $tn 
annually. 

Perhap"^. in justice to tlie Irish Roman Catholic Repealers we sb "Id 
ropy one ot their late and popular sonirs. said to lie ' extensively circulat d in 
Ireland and England ;'" nor may it be \> iihout some interest to America-s, as 
showing by the declarations o) the Catholic Repealers whatrlhey wisi to be 
iindeislood as their objects and true sentiments. ' 

A CHOICK CANTICLE: OR TIli; IRISH PAPIST^ OWN SO N;^. 

Tlir limi- his arrivid, mid the lIiT.'liri l.iii>n 
liut knowing uoii't do. \tc tniiit make ilir ropii ' 

«V11 1,1111^1.- tlif viUnIm.aii.l «i-l! «e .ai. d.i 
In vpitL' of tbrir W.UiuRtun, J.yiidliiirsl. nud IV. 



' A- Wlrn thi' ni.-lhrri «■ ''"" fnl' "'«■ />. 
It) n .\tfro. or Irish OCi'i'*". »"<' !»l>ii'!. 



Thf r]iiir»:liis cf Potcr, wlicrc »ilcully iiioiddt-r 
'ITif boDi'i of llif mints, wliuin llif lici^Miis sliw ; 

Ari- not more dfti'sli'd. drs>-rtt'l. or colder, 
'lliaii itic »oul> of the ilnmnuhle Hintic ireir. 



' Sfdt an>idst Ihtir lirig 1 f""" • •"•fl'tl/'s 

! Wliitlulle'l hirl.'.|o«u W" '^'' '"»']\j P" 

! nU.w t" II 11 imc. Ih .1 « nf r imv dir. 

.nil it odds « iie« w/Mlli t# " «nsh:uari's fun.-' 



park in your 
piuelaini ; 



Ilul ." loi 
licarti 
*' lyl the (lowder Iw dry," 



I Full ill t'.v. then ll 
ibiill u niirinc Idoom to claddin our Siiihi lli ntio l"roti 
ToUk heli.ofv 



11 wlirttod till sl.'il' 
Well «h«fr the h. Il-fi..uiids >iih Cmholii- d-irtt. 
Ixd ou I.) our elerpy. O't'^iin.ll, mid .Sh:.l 

Tlir r>la(UI- full, n, our .Imiils >liall ari 
To CallioUcp">riri »e niakc our nppcal ; 

Ij t tliem rix' too, mid ri ud and u>toiiish tbi ^kil :, 
AI the fall uf old NN idliiigtou, l.ytidharst and IV'I : 



abroad, and at home ; 
ruuse how il ivolf ! 

. „ _ r» o// iHlhoiirt roro.-, 

Tu'liuaiUceiiiVl Viiul/» *"'' lyndlmrjt., a.id Peeli! 

On lon^ polfs sH./> '»"" RiMo.i" 1io|kj lliey may 

■ ;«oii.m1, l'rolfsli./'l''"''>'' f"' I'sp^l'l" ft-fl; 
Itut in lieu, yriu/" ''"*'<'• *'•'' * i"*!'- »'«'' » "hi-ut, 
Li .1 biimjHT. bi./"."y. V '•'"«. <"^' fhxl ■ 



Ami llii-n 1' fk wini-mbiT enr frindi^ ofir tlir wnI*T ; 

ncininl Ihnn, IhoMgli Ivdious, thnt round goo lb* 

» hfil ; 



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|iDoiil'i»''"-"''"'f-'' 
Old Lngland. 4- AincrlrBni 

N. n. In riew of Ihr fin '^.lii^ fnrts and eou*idc ration*, *t lui 
Uii Amrncaii Kapubliean i-auie under the head o( tki iIk 
fcpfftrr (ill, wfxl lor c>ur rrmark* beiiij; oreupir^l. ui* uiti.t 
facts and rrlirtioi i are al.so omitted, all uf viliirh 
Il the m.'K'i tin.'' we triiil uur rounlrymen will x 
fw-ry pari jf lU ■ fhirf, %i'd in d- Iri;iitJTig Oi'-if |»0' 




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M lhe prin.iplet, objects, und hidory of 

HI ill rtonrd lo Portion hjlytni-r, but tbe 

inipl.rtiiil .lnj.ler. iM.iin »iTy inL-rfsting 

d in Ihr «r^ohd editmii, nson t.) U- piibii.he<l. 

i1ai.f> of iinni'diatr Hiioeiiiiou iigd a tijo ia 

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